Friday, December 30, 2011

Perl documentation in the news

OK, so there have been some efforts this year to get Perl looking as up-to-date as it actually is; the problem is that the language has been around so long that typical search results may be a decade old, even though the community has decisively moved on. Since competing languages haven't even been around, the result is that it looks like it's easier to do modern tasks in, say, Ruby - because that's what you see in relevant results.

My Lego inventory project should do well for this; it's a typical Web scraping database program that will make a good article. I just have to find out how to cross-post to, say, perl.com.

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