{"id":10991,"date":"2007-12-19T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/19\/happy-birthday-perl\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:20:26","slug":"happy-birthday-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/19\/happy-birthday-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Perl!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My favorite (so far) programming language has been born 20 years ago<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been loved and hated.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been praised and damned.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been complimented and criticized.\u00c2\u00a0 But all that doesn’t matter.\u00c2\u00a0 What matters is that it has been helping people all over the world to solve problems.\u00c2\u00a0 Tricky, boring, annoying problems.\u00c2\u00a0 It provided enough power to build enterprise grade applications, while still being easy and flexible enough to be the super-glue of many systems.<\/p>\n

I’m sure Perl will still be with us in another 20 years.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish it to be as useful in that time, as it is now.<\/p>\n

Thanks, respect, and best wishes to everyone who created and supported Perl, its community and tools all these years.\u00c2\u00a0 Happy birthday!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

My favorite (so far) programming language has been born 20 years ago.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been loved and hated.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been praised and damned.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been complimented and criticized.\u00c2\u00a0 But all that doesn’t matter.\u00c2\u00a0 What matters is that it has been helping people all over the world to solve problems.\u00c2\u00a0 Tricky, boring, annoying problems.\u00c2\u00a0 It provided enough … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Perl!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[918,696,438,991,186,36],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-announcements","tag-birthday","tag-celebrations","tag-milestones","tag-news","tag-perl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8533,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/25\/practical-perl-programming\/","url_meta":{"origin":10991,"position":0},"title":"Practical Perl Programming","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"If you really wanted to learn Perl programming language, you would have learned it already. 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