pvergain (framapiaf)
boosted
#Perl conferences, mailing lists, and #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) created a vibrant ecosystem long before the modern package managers of today. As the web matured and new languages emerged, #Python, #PHP, and later #Ruby, Perl’s dominance gradually waned. Still, many of the ideas Perl popularised, from regular expressions to package repositories, remain foundational today.
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