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Allison Randal
Personal blog · allisonrandal.comprogrammingculture
Allison Randal's personal blog at allisonrandal.com covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Why I still love Perl”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Allison Randal's writing on why Perl lost ground to PHP, including the shared-hosting advantage and the Perl 6 setbacks. A commenter also points to her other essay on Perl's decline.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal blog about open source, open hardware.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I still love Perl3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-31
What Hacker News says?
This was really good. The mix of PHP as a better solution for shared hosting (and its simplicity for beginners) and the horror story of Perl 6 were both big setbacks. Allison Randal wrote on the death of Perl a while back and had some observations worth nothing to understand how it fell: http://allisonrandal.com/2013/03/31/mythbusters-why-i-still-... I really liked working with Modern Perl, but rarely do anymore mos…
Comment linking /2013/03/31/mythbusters-why-i-still-love-perl/
on “Why Perl Didn't Win”Submitted Why I still love Perl as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I (still) Love Perl as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Open Source as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Enlightenment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Open Source (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Job, New Blog « Allison Randal as a story · 1 points
HN discussion