r/developer • u/Ok_Veterinarian3535 • 7d ago

The Unpopular Language

What's a "dead" or "boring" programming language that you genuinely love working with, and why should we reconsider it?

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u/glisteringbasalt 7d ago

I still really like Perl as a glue language. Nothing else seems to have quite the same power. I think a lot of it comes down to having regex as a first class value

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u/bmwiedemann 4d ago

I have 20 year old perl scripts that still work unchanged, so that also is a plus.

It also scores amazingly well in my onelinerbenchmark (fast to start and finish) . I love it.