Michael Gemar (@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca)

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Perl: 37 years old
Python: 34 years old

Text from a Wall Street Journal article: “But when it comes to full translation, the technology still has some room to mature, he said. It can technically rewrite code from an old language like Perl in a new one like Python, but it wouldn’t necessarily know how to write it as efficient code that takes advantage of all Python’s capabilities, he said. And that’s one big reason humans are staying in the loop, he said.”

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@siracusa I’m delighted that you’re stanning for a nearly 40 year old language. Not surprising, but still delightful.

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@michaelgemar @siracusa Developers today: Discrimination against older developers with decades of experience is real, and users and newer developers are worse off because of it. The replies here: hurr durr these mature, still actively maintained languages which have solved a lot problems and provided a lot of value to people are lame because they’re not new.

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@tvaughan @siracusa The OP John is well-known for his love of Perl, and is often good-naturedly joshed about it by his various podcast co-hosts.

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@michaelgemar @siracusa lame

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