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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?"

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  1. Re:Better yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone but Timothy.

  2. Re:Better yet... by tbuddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    +9001 Funny.

  3. Re:Perl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    /&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^

    Random garbage or valid perl?

  4. Re:Perl by trudslev · · Score: 5, Funny

    Valid garbage or random perl?

  5. Re:Perl by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 4, Funny

    /&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^

    Random garbage or valid perl?

    Why can't it be both?

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  6. Re:Perl still works, and PHP is fine by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

    > PHP is relatively modern, robust

    No it isn't

    Skillfully refuted!

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  7. Re:Perl still works, and PHP is fine by itzly · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not an argument. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

  8. Re:Perl still works, and PHP is fine by danudwary · · Score: 5, Funny

    No it isn't.

  9. Re:Perl by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    /&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^

    Random garbage or valid perl?

    Yes.

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