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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 15:15:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I don't see perl devs being as arrogant as they should be at the fact that UNLIKE SOME OTHER P-LANGUAGES I COULD MENTION, they've been on the same major version for 30 years.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 15:16:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Python programmer: yeah I've been spending a lot of time converting my code to work with python 3.

     Perl programmer: oh yeah that happened to me once! I had to convert all my code to run on the new Perl 5. Have you ever tried to use SSH on Windows 3.1? It's a pain!

   • Joe Cooper 💾 (swelljoe@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 15:22:08 JST Joe Cooper 💾

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     @foone the Perl codebase I work on, which is probably a couple hundred thousand lines of code, still has quite a few Perl 4-isms in it. Works fine on current Perl versions.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 15:22:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Joe Cooper 💾

     @swelljoe you hear that, python? Perl people can still run code from versions made before the Soviet Union fell.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 16:44:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ryan Finnie

     @foo putting requests into stdlib would make python devs too powerful. We can't let them have that much ability, they'll dethrone the gods and rebuild the world in their image!

   • Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 16:44:13 JST Ryan Finnie

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     @foone Come on, give Python some slack. Do you realize how much development effort it takes them to avoid integrating "requests" into stdlib?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 16:47:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Yes, speaking as a python programmer, I've decided to join in on the perl vs. python war, but on the side of perl

   • Andy (rasteri@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 19:11:26 JST Andy

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     @foone not looked at perl in 20 years, pleased to see that Perl 6 never actually happened

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 19:11:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Andy

     @rasteri that's the nice thing about perl. You can look away for two decades and it stays right where you left it.