> 2) Is ubiquitous
On which systems do you have Perl readily available but not Python?
On which systems do you have Perl readily available but not Python?
Perl 5 is Perl 5 everywhere.
Where I work, a few of our legacy systems are still dependent on ~v5.10, which can be a real pain when trying to port code back to legacy. I agree that the Python versioning problem is perhaps more prominent, but Perl 5 doesn't really get a free pass here.
Perl documentation online applys to versions of perl that are installed. Python stuff is all bleeding edge - you'll research why something isn't working and after 30 minutes find it's expecting python 3.7.
The whole concept of "virtualenv" gives me an impression of fragility I don't get with perl.
How ancient is that system?
No matter, that system is going to be decommissioned and functions will go over to a new EL7 install.
It just stalls that project till the new server is ready.
This is not how you deploy software
Because of the stability of perl5, I barely care what version of perl5 that ends up being. (Perl 5.10 and up is pretty much what I want, 5.8 and 5.6 are a drag if i might need unicode)
Not that installing Python is especially difficult, but still.