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0 pointslizmat1y ago0 comments

If this was about my former $work:

The company using Perl was able to double its turnover in 3 weeks.

The company using Java was still in the design phase.

Companies choose their tools depending on their internal culture. The company using Perl at the time was simply more agile.

FWIW, the company that was using Perl is now using Java mostly. And yes, the culture of the company has changed. Not sure about cause and effect.

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calvinmorrison1y ago

The thing is you can chose to write perl in a way that doesn't suck. The problem with TMTOWTDI is that with 18 people in a code base.... well its best to have a set of conventions when writing perl. Let's all agree to use 5.x.x with these features for example

kamaal1y ago

These days you can TMTOWTDI in Python as well though.

The TMTOWTDI argument was valid in very early stages of Perl vs Python debate, like some what between 2000 - 2006 etc.

These days Python is just Perl with mandatory tab indentation. Python is no longer that small language, with small set of syntactical features. C++/Java etc in the meanwhile have gotten even more TMTOWTDI heavy over the years.

calvinmorrison1y ago

I don't really work with python often enough but as for php there's usually one boring way to do it. We eschew generally more fun stuff like array operations because for loops work and the intent is vlear

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0 pointslizmat1y ago0 comments

If this was about my former $work:

The company using Perl was able to double its turnover in 3 weeks.

The company using Java was still in the design phase.

Companies choose their tools depending on their internal culture. The company using Perl at the time was simply more agile.

FWIW, the company that was using Perl is now using Java mostly. And yes, the culture of the company has changed. Not sure about cause and effect.

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calvinmorrison1y ago

kamaal1y ago

These days you can TMTOWTDI in Python as well though.

The TMTOWTDI argument was valid in very early stages of Perl vs Python debate, like some what between 2000 - 2006 etc.

calvinmorrison1y ago

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