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[return to "Perl's decline was cultural"]
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1. jordan+D3[view] [source] 2025-12-06 18:16:28
>>todsac+(OP)
I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense. Then there was the whole one-liner thing that was all about being clever and obscure. Everything about Python came off as being much more serious and normal for a young nerd who wasn't a theater kid.
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2. simonw+96[view] [source] 2025-12-06 18:34:03
>>jordan+D3
This made me smile given Python's love of Monty Python references - the cheese shop etc.
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3. tmp104+y8[view] [source] 2025-12-06 18:51:15
>>simonw+96
I appreciated them at the time I encountered them (mid-2000s), but they were definitely a bit cringe in their frequency and shamelessness. I wonder if younger people even know Monty Python anymore - by my time, I think people had mostly forgotten about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, even if 42 survived.
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