That may be true in Cali, where the sun always shines, and hot women program computers. In NY, in the wide world of financial software development, Perl is grandfathered into everything.
Software is rolled out nightly, and millions of dollars run through these scripts daily. As long as what's in the system is supported by Perl, and as long as it's "stable enough", it will remain around.
Transitioning one of the large financial companies to Perl would be a monumental task, risking massive quantities of money.
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That's what she said.
This can't possibly help dentist suicide rates.
> While no actual invisibility cloak exists yet, researchers are also theorizing on how to beat the perfect cloak."
How about flour and water? This reminds me of a joke...
That's unlikely to happen. RJS with Rails is a nice alternative though.
That may be true in Cali, where the sun always shines, and hot women program computers. In NY, in the wide world of financial software development, Perl is grandfathered into everything.
Software is rolled out nightly, and millions of dollars run through these scripts daily. As long as what's in the system is supported by Perl, and as long as it's "stable enough", it will remain around.
Transitioning one of the large financial companies to Perl would be a monumental task, risking massive quantities of money.
Once great AOL, not an intelligent idea or product in sight for years, is finally put out of its misery by Time Warner.
stop talking to me ceiling!
Washington comes together, bails out the bunny ear industry.