All the faggots using php and now JS on the server can suck camel cock

>>55159060
lol people haven't been making perl web apps since like 1999.

Bugzilla is literally the only common app out there still perl based.

I'm learning perl right now.
It's fucking comfy with all these variables.

I don't care if it's used or not in webz. I use it for my own simple tasks and it's great.

>>55159394

I agree. I mostly stick to using it as awk++. Awk, even GNU Awk is pretty painful to use once your problem becomes evenly complex. Capture groups don't actually capture. Standard Awk functions only operate on strings and you have to loop over aggregates explicitly yourself.

I actually really like the older style procedural modules like `Data::Dumper`. You've got a few global variables that you can tweak to modify the behavior (like indentation level or sorting keys), but because you have dynamic scope in addition to lexical scope, you can confine your changes to an arbitrary block.

$ perl -p -e '$|=1; s/#\[(.*)\]/eval($1)/ge' | $COMMAND
# replace $COMMAND by an interactive program of your choice.
# What this does is wrap your interactive program with a perl script
# that takes strings enclosed in #[ ] and executes them as perl code
# much like $( ) expansion happens at the shell
# If the pipeline breaks the I/O sync use this instead
$ mkfifo fifo
$ $COMMAND <fifo & perl -p -e '$|=1; s/#\[(.*)\]/eval($1)/ge' >fifo ; rm fifo

>>55159166
>booking.com isn't common
>BBC iPlayer isn't common

There are plenty of enthusiastic perl web developers out there. They just prefer to get the job done using their favourite tools rather than forcing their choices on others.

Perl is the best shell language because the interpreter only runs the line of code you enter and immediately shuts off. It seamlessly integrates with bash *nux utilities. It has implicit collections and iterators that allow one liners to do the work of multi-line scripts. Its more powerful than sed/grep/awk (which it was designed to replace). As a shell language nothing comes close to Perl, anyone who writes bash scripts is an idiot

>>55159166
Mojolicious is a Perl web framework that has every possible feature you could want in a framework like REST, web sockets, templates, etc and is written entirely in Perl, no dependencies

>>55160647
>two shitty examples

Only hurting your argument desu