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[lemiffe]

PHP dev? ;)

[hiccuphippo → lemiffe]

Another stereotype? It could be Perl or Bash.

[tyingq → hiccuphippo]

Or Ruby, or TCL...

[RbrtM → tyingq]

I didn't know that there are still people out there that program in Perl or Tcl??

[tyingq → RbrtM]

Booking.com is mostly Perl and doing gangbusters. Tcl is, for example, the lingua franca for F5 load balancers. I have more examples, but both are far from dead.

[Cyph0n → tyingq]

Tcl is a household name in the field of EDA tool scripting.

Virtually all software tools designed by Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor include a Tcl REPL/console.

Any task performed in the GUI is actually executed in the REPL, making it easy to replicate a specific flow by just copy/pasting the commands displayed in the REPL into a Tcl script.

To load a script, you simply pass it as an argument when running the software.

[lizmat → RbrtM]

There are. There's even a Perl 6 that is production ready: https://perl6.org

[new_hackers → tyingq]

or PowerShell

[labster → lemiffe]

I thought Perl was the only language that has ' as a valid character in variable names along with the $. Ada allows the quote, too.

[osrec → lemiffe]

First thing that came to my mind too! But it could also be bash...