<story><title>93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)</title><url>https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a fun read.&lt;p&gt;I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl.&lt;p&gt;I still wake up, screaming, sometimes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant.&lt;p&gt;@peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it.
Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iso1210</author><text>I recently had to work out why some nodejs monstrosity wasn&amp;#x27;t working. Somewhere in the 68,746 files that made up the program there was a problem.&lt;p&gt;I rewrote it in a couple of hours in 393 lines of perl and 6 OS installed (so stable for the life of the OS) libraries.</text></comment>
<story><title>93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)</title><url>https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a fun read.&lt;p&gt;I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl.&lt;p&gt;I still wake up, screaming, sometimes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant.&lt;p&gt;@peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it.
Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Fun fact: cPanel[0] is still written in Perl&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cpanel.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cpanel.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>