Amanda developer djmitche writes:
I’m a developer of Amanda, which has been around and open source for over 15 years, but has always had a fairly small development community. We’re moving to github to try to encourage more active development by creating a more inclusive developer environment. We’re also rewriting the application in Perl, for similar reasons.
15 years! What were you doing in 1994?
Amanda, as the README explains, is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive. If you’re a Perl monger interested in working on a mature, growing project, check it out.
In 1994 I was using Amanda to backup my network. :)
In 2009 I'm wondering, why Perl? :)
I love perl.
Most people don't know, but 2009 perl is not the same as 1994 perl.
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Perl in 2009 is more active than even in 1999. See http://search.cpan.org/recent for the kinds and frequencies of contributions that are being made to CPAN. It's a good time to be hacking Perl.
There were a number of reasons to choose perl: admins (this is backup software!) tend to know Perl; Perl's C interface is simple and straightforward; we already had a good amount of Perl in the codebase, but very little of any other scripting language; and Perl has been pretty stable for a long time (Amanda has strong backward-compatibility requirements).
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Why perl . now ! ..are we going backwards ?
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