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Python. At some point there were even talks about a common runtime, Parrot.
Python is also killing Matlab, which is very good.
Perl was the third computer language I learned, after basic and pascal. I will always have fun thinking of the bar hopping and being on drugs. Wait…
I get so confused about what scrambled my brain. Are there 12 step programs for Perl ?
I have a better question: why was Perl a thing to begin with?
At the time it filled a hole in technology: it was better than bash scripts. It’s also an ancestor programming language, influencing dozens of other technologies, even if only to avoid the missteps.
All that stuff we see as wrong today was new and shiny earlier, with great promise. Perl had to exist to inspire future programmers to never do that again. And quite a few things that were nice was made from it
It really was not that bad as a language, though. If you like lots of two character global variables with the first character always being a punctuation mark