I am a Python/C/C++ programmer.
I hate Perl, but not the people who write it. I don't hate the player, I hate the game.
I am glad Perl is a dying language. Saying it isn't doesn't make it so. People still use COBOL and no one would argue it's not dying.
I love how many Perl programmers hate on Ruby because it stole their niche, not for really any technical reasons.
No, I'm not a big fan of Ruby either. Fuck needing special versions of everything to get the most trivial things working.
@Elizafox I spent a long time doing perl. Now ruby for work for the last five years. I miss C a lot and I'm totally not qualified to get a job doing it anymore. So it'll probably be more ruby and I'll probably keep drinking.
@sungo I just went into the stock trading business. Because it's easier and less ulcer-inducing. Plus it's easier to keep up with the markets than the latest hip programming language. https://mst3k.interlinked.me/media/P46-Ez6PECKJFkgRik8
@Elizafox I'm a sysadmin that learned to automate shit. That automating usually gets me into development-ish gigs. I'm trying to be extra loud about the sysadmin side so that my next gig will let me just be angry about all programming languages all the time.
@sungo I try not to let myself get too mad these days. =P
@Elizafox One of my many psych conditions is dysphoric mania. Translation: I'm almost always kind of irrationally angry about something all the time. Might as well be about other people's shitty code (or my shitty code)
@sungo I know what that is unfortunately. I've had lots of bipolar friends.
Depression rendered me a shell of my former self that by all accounts used to be rather nice, but became bitter and occasionally rude to people from just getting angry for no reason... it was the only thing I could really feel.
I sought treatment way too late. I alienated a lot of people through sheer apathy of maintaining the friendship or my outbursts.
I lost 6 years to depression. 2,190 days ± 365.
@Samizdata @sungo I'm on the road to recovery I think :).