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in thread Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018
You are quite right of course.
The criterion for relevance is not just technology as such.
Probably (I don't really know to be honest) you could do a lot of things that people use python's numpy & pandas for with perl's PDL, but then EVERYBODY uses numpy & pandas and if I want to learn about it I can even choose among several books if I want, while there is not a single book about PDL.
So on a pure technical level perl may be in contention, but in reality it isn't.
Python seems to be eating R's lunch these times and Perl is not even a contender anymore.
It was not inevitable to play out like this, to me this is (in a way) Perl vs PHP all over again.
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