Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? 536
adelayde (185757) writes "In my day job, I work on a web based service with a lot of legacy code written in that older (and some may say venerable) web-scripting language, Perl. Although we use Modern Perl extensions such as Moose, the language just seems to be ossifying and we're wanting to move to a more up-to-date and used language for web applications, or even an entire framework, to do new development. We're still planning to support the legacy code for a number of years to come; that's unavoidable. This is a fairly big project and it's mission critical to the business. The thing we're afraid of is jumping onto something that is too new and too buzzy as we'd like to make a technology decision that would be good at least for the next five years, if not more, and today's rising star could quite easily be in tomorrow's dustbin. What language and/or framework would you recommend we adopt?"
Better yet... (Score:4, Funny)
Which editor should we use?
Re:Better yet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better yet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perl (Score:5, Funny)
/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
Random garbage or valid perl?
Re:Perl (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perl (Score:2, Funny)
It's too old. As far I can tell, there are exactly zero specific requirements mentioned besides it being something new but that'll stick around, and that the project is "fairly big."
My solution would be to talk to the smart friend of yours with the largest hands. The slap upside the head should solve the problem.
Re:Perl (Score:5, Funny)
/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
Random garbage or valid perl?
Why can't it be both?
Re:Perl still works, and PHP is fine (Score:5, Funny)
> PHP is relatively modern, robust
No it isn't
Skillfully refuted!
Re:Perl still works, and PHP is fine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perl still works, and PHP is fine (Score:5, Funny)
No it isn't.
Re:Remove the ransom note excuse with Deparse (Score:4, Funny)
I just did your deparse trick on my worst perl script, and it made it *worse*! I must be doing something right.
Re:Perl (Score:5, Funny)
/&%#%^&*)^ADVkjR$%^$E)!HJLGAZ^&R%\jkghlk/^
Random garbage or valid perl?
Yes.
Re:Perl says your garbage is just that (Score:4, Funny)
syntax error at -e line 1, near "^ &&"
Hell, at least it made it 2/3 of the way through.