Perl: 37 years old
Python: 34 years old
@caseyliss @siracusa To be fair, the python people care about is 3 which was released in 2008 and perl 5, the one people usually associate with "perl" was 1994.
@bartreardon Today’s Perl 5.40.2 is not the same as 1994’s Perl 5.0.0
@siracusa @bartreardon As someone who years ago had to periodically compile newer Perl and Perl modules on HP-UX (Itanium) for $WORK, can confirm… significant differences in performance, features, platform support, etc. over time encompassed in that one major version 5.
@siracusa Mr Incredible Meme: "5 is 5"
But yes, it's quite different 🙂
Also Perl 6 aka Raku aka wtf is raku?
@siracusa @bartreardon and today's Python 3.12.8 is not the same as 2008's Python 3.0.0; for a start we've gotten async/await support and a way to sidestep the GIL since then. what's your point?
