Mark Dominus (@mjd@mathstodon.xyz)

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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

But:

Perl 5: Sep 1994
Python 3: Dec 2008

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@mjd I’d say 5.40 is pretty far from 5.0. Stubbornly maintaining back-compat has kept the 5 unchanged even as a ton of stuff has been updated and improved.

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@siracusa Entirely by coincidence, I ran across this just now while looking for something else.

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