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		Kye 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Killed Perl? Good luck getting any two people to agree on a sharp line between programming language and scripting language. Perl seems to swap sides depending on the year people are arguing about it.

daneel_w 11 days ago [–]

In my experience those can't discern what's what are usually the ones who mainly did a bit of dabbling in either.

spankalee 11 days ago | [–]

Assuming you've done more than dabbling, what's specifically the difference to you then?

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