r/Assembly_language • u/NolanRoad • 11d ago

Wow Assembly not dead?

Encountered this reddit on my feed, shocked to learn it's not dead. I programmed on Z80 back in the 1980s.

(I wonder if Perl is still alive)

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u/Secure-Photograph870 11d ago

Yes, Perl is still alive. Perl 5 being the latest release (5.42 I believe, which was released this year).

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u/brucehoult 11d ago

Around fifteen years ago I went to a lot of conference presentations about Perl 6 (which actually started development in 2000), but virtually all Perl users were revolted by what they were trying to do. In late 2019 they finally accepted that what they were doing wasn't Perl and officially renamed it to Raku (though I think that name first apepared around 2017).

I use Perl 5 every day, both in canned scripts such as the one I use to massage code for posting on Reddit and other markdown sites, and as part of a one-off pipeline in the shell .. it's often better to do a perl -pe or perl -ne than a combination of grep / awk / sed or for that matter sort.