[ale] You know you're getting old....

[Ken Cochran]

The owner of the ISP from where this email originates has a
corollary proverb:

Never use a computer you can lift.  :)

Re COBOL, didn't You-Know-Who try to replace/displace it with
PL/I? I wonder if the COBOL "problems" we have nowadays are
that all the legacy/Just-Works things sourced in it, have
Just Worked for so long that they have disappeared into the
background to such an extent that nobody gets the necessary
Round Tuitts to revise/update them.  IMO it may be "out of
fashion" these days but I still believe it to be a useful &
yes, efficient tool to have in the toolchest.

-k

> Subject: Re: [ale] You know you're getting old....
> From: DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Cc: "DJPfulio at jdpfu.com" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>
>
> On 7/15/22 19:37, SpaXpert, Inc. via Ale wrote:
> > The college professor gives a final assignment to be completed using
> > PERL, using the terminal for interaction with the server.  (Yes, this
> > happened - I helped a wonderful girl in Damascus complete it last
> > year).  Of course, she graduated with honors. :^)
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 1:52 PM Jerald Sheets via Ale <ale at ale.org
> > <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Just answer “$300hr”.  If someone bites, tell them you’ll start in 40
> > days.  That should be enough time to acquire the language.
>
> Perl is very much alive and still used all over the
> place. Chances are, your Linux distro is still dependent on
> some perl to run.
>
> YAPC-NA was last month in Houston.
> There's an ATL-Perl group that meets monthly too. They were
> using Jitsi last time I looked.
>
> booking.com is a perl shop.
> amazon.com is a perl/mason user too.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182396  It sorta
> "just works", but it isn't noob friendly. That's a good and
> bad thing. It means that most perl code and modules are not
> created by noobs, so it doesn't break.  It also means that
> there is a stigma against learning it.  Not as bad as the
> stigma around cobol, thankfully.
>
> I still write some perl almost every week to scratch personal
> projects. Whenever bash becomes over 1 page long, I'll switch
> to perl.  Python just doesn't "feel" right. I don't like the
> mandated indentation style and there aren't enough semicolons.
>
> Never trust a language without semicolons!