Post #813481
2025-06-03 23:06 UTC
Replies (10)
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@unsaturated@discuss.systems 2025-06-04 01:21
@jenzi@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social outrageous hallucinations
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@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 2025-06-03 23:11
@siracusa@mastodon.social I’m delighted that you’re stanning for a nearly 40 year old language. Not surprising, but still delightful.
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@Mutesplash@uncontrollablegas.com 2025-06-03 23:13
@siracusa@mastodon.social Welllll... Perl 5 in 1994 and Python 3 in 2008? 🤷♂️
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@prehnra@mastodon.social 2025-06-03 23:14
@siracusa@mastodon.social Yes, but Perl was already 20 years old when Larry Wall created it.
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@rjschutten@hachyderm.io 2025-06-03 23:15
@siracusa@mastodon.social So, they are technically correct? For the record: I don’t like either of them 🙂
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@thomasjpr@thomasjpr.social 2025-06-03 23:37
@siracusa@mastodon.social Perl/Python = Colin Robinson/Baby Colin Robinson
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@doncruse@appellate.social 2025-06-03 23:38
@siracusa@mastodon.social Both Perl and Python are closer on the geologic fossil record to COBOL (66 years old) than to our present day.
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@caseyliss@mastodon.social 2025-06-03 23:47
@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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@elie@elbereth.xyz 2025-06-04 00:10
@siracusa@mastodon.social as someone who’s perpetually 27 this doesn’t sit well with me
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@acb@mastodon.social 2025-06-04 00:24
@siracusa@mastodon.social To be fair, Perl came preloaded with technical debt of the sort it’d normally take years to accrue