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XSLT will blow your mind

literally. it was my first real exposure to functional programming.

One of my duties at work is maintaining a ColdFusion website. Apparently CF was a valid choice for a server side language 20+ years ago (the age of the web site). Who knew?

Everyone who used ColdFusion? I mean, why do you think ColdFusion was created?

Even Python 2.0 is over 20+ years old!

I avoid Python because of it's track record with breaking changes. Almost every time I try to run something Python, I run into version incompatibility issues, which is not the experience I want others to have with my project.

The vast majority of breaking changes should have been down to the Python 2 to Python 3 upgrade - since then I've seen very few breaking changes affect my projects.

The trick I use to protect against them is to run my test suite against multiple Python versions using GitHub Actions, e.g. here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/main/.github/wor...

I prefer to just write in Perl and without third-party modules, which is backwards compatible to 5.000 (1994)

Regex pays dividends