#perl
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #perl from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #perl
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 04:30 UTC27 uses by 25 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-27 04:30 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 04:30 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~197 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (37) · French (3)
Avg boosts / post: 1.7
Top of the latest posts
I know a large part of why #Perl does what I mean is because I spent a couple decades figuring out how to tell it what I mean. But still. It's nice that Perl does what I mean.
I miss Perl If a computer language could be hardcore punk, it would be #perl. It annoyed the hell out of developers when I wrote code in it. Over 27 years ago I wrote AFT https://maplefish.com/todd/aft.html (or you can "apt install aft" und
Re earlier toot ... just like with #BSD, new releases of #perl are BORING. They just work. Absolutely disgusting levels of backward compatibility. Shouldn't be allowed.
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