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		pragmatic 62 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Killed Perl? Perl was write only. I worked at a company that had a 50k bash/perl install script maintained by the 3 person QA team. Dear lord that was a mess.

pragmatic 62 days ago [–]

I had to build a custom middle ware sso thingy that ran on six and worked with ssl certs.

I fought cpan for two days trying to get anything to work.

Switched to java, had it done and in production in an afternoon.

Not a fan of Perl.

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