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Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy?
adelayde (185757) writes "In my day job, I work on a web based service with a lot of legacy code written in that older (and some may say venerable) web-scripting language, Perl. Although we use Modern Perl extensions such as Moose, the language just seems to be ossifying and we're wanting to move to a more up-to-date and used language for web applications, or even an entire framework, to do new development. We're still planning to support the legacy code for a number of years to come; that's unavoidable. This is a fairly big project and it's mission critical to the business. The thing we're afraid of is jumping onto something that is too new and too buzzy as we'd like to make a technology decision that would be good at least for the next five years, if not more, and today's rising star could quite easily be in tomorrow's dustbin. What language and/or framework would you recommend we adopt?"
Which editor should we use?
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
Random garbage or valid perl?
Valid garbage or random perl?
It's too old. As far I can tell, there are exactly zero specific requirements mentioned besides it being something new but that'll stick around, and that the project is "fairly big."
My solution would be to talk to the smart friend of yours with the largest hands. The slap upside the head should solve the problem.
/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
Random garbage or valid perl?
Why can't it be both?
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
> PHP is relatively modern, robust
No it isn't
Skillfully refuted!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
That's not an argument. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
No it isn't.
I just did your deparse trick on my worst perl script, and it made it *worse*! I must be doing something right.
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
Random garbage or valid perl?
Yes.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
syntax error at -e line 1, near "^ &&"
Hell, at least it made it 2/3 of the way through.
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?