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I mean, learning Haskell has made me a better programmer even if I've never used it at work. Perl I have used. I wouldn't say the same about that...

• thesnide 3y ago
  Perl is the canonical example of "less is sometimes better". I love coding in Perl. But it seems that everyone uses a disjoined subset of it, which makes collaboration awkward. And, if C let you shoot yourself in the foot, C++ give you a shotgun to do so.. Perl gives you a timed nuclear device.
  • ay 3y ago
    Perl (without dependencies) works awesomely well as a replacement for bash in scripts, in my experience. Unlike Python, chances that it will break the next month (or the next decade) are virtually nil.
    • XorNot 3y ago
      Python without dependencies will also work everywhere basically forever. Hell, most Python 2 is valid Python 3, but it's been over a decade now - Python 3 is the default system Python in most everything.
      • ay 3y ago
        “Most” is a highly load bearing item here. You can’t go back and rewrite the scripts that don’t work so they do.