Perl still being used?

Originally Posted by CreativeLogic I spoke in wrong terms. No programming language is really ever gone. Take Fortran for example, not gone but not used nearly as much as it once was.

actually i think i took what you said too literally
i see what you mean now.

I never got into perl/cgi, i almost did once since i had nothing else to do, but i forgot about it..

Perl/Cgi is still being used by many websites !!!

Hardley any are developed in perl anymore.

There's no doubt Perl/CGI is being pretty much replaced by PHP. However, there are still many sites that more or less use it - I am currently working on two projects which involve implementing new features in existing Perl/CGI applications.

On the other hand, I find Perl a great language for making my life as a developer (and occasional system administrator) easier. Whenever I need to do something that is too complex for a shell script, like parsing/generating a large amount of structured text data, I use Perl. I have written a couple of tools that I constantly use and they save me a lot of time. Yay Perl!

Correct me if I'm wrong but the applications you developed using perl could have all been wrote in PHP. There is only one thing I can think of off the top of my head that perl can beat php in.

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Originally Posted by CreativeLogic Correct me if I'm wrong but the applications you developed using perl could have all been wrote in PHP.

You're right - I am not saying that Perl is more powerful than PHP. Perl's just my language of choice and I am a fan of it, mostly because of its conciseness.

Judging by the number of jobs getting posted here http://jobs.perl.org/ I would say perl is still alive and kicking !

yeah perl is great ofr parsing strings.

i'm almost done developing a web crawler and i did it in PHP and it's slow, especially due to the many regular expressions :/

it would work better with Perl.

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