I find it really interesting to think about Perl 100 years from now. Will it still be around in some form?
There is a really excellent SF novel 'A Deepness in the Sky' by Vernor Vinge.
It's a few thousand years from now, and one really important job is "Programmer-Archeologist". Their job is to grub around in libraries, find an already existing solution, adapt it to present needs. This is important because without quality automation running your spaceship, you could die.
There are hints that some of these libraries are really old: an off-hand comment is made referencing what must be unix epoch.
There is a really excellent SF novel 'A Deepness in the Sky' by Vernor Vinge.
It's a few thousand years from now, and one really important job is "Programmer-Archeologist". Their job is to grub around in libraries, find an already existing solution, adapt it to present needs. This is important because without quality automation running your spaceship, you could die.
There are hints that some of these libraries are really old: an off-hand comment is made referencing what must be unix epoch.