2025-06-03 23:47 UTC
@siracusa@mastodon.social holy shit I never would have guessed that.
Truly.
I’d have thought Perl was twice as old.
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@bartreardon@aus.social 2025-06-03 23:53
@caseyliss@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social 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.
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@Eric_Neue@indieweb.social 2025-06-04 00:16
@caseyliss@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social To be fair, I wanted to be the third guy to say “To be fair”
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@lo_fye@mastodon.cloud 2025-06-04 11:02
@caseyliss@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social PHP turns 30 this year, and it feels more fresh than ever. There’s so much going on in the community. Worth re-examination by anyone who remembers early PHP. This ain’t that.
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@archaica@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 01:37
@caseyliss@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social Perl was the first scripting language I learned, in the first Clinton administration.