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What is Bosque Language? Experimental Programming Language from Microsoft Research. The key design features of the language provide ways to avoid accidental complexity in the development and coding process. The result is improved developer productivity, increased software quality, and enable a range of new compilers.

What is Perl? Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development. Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

Bosque Language and Perl belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

Bosque Language and Perl are both open source tools. Bosque Language with 4.44K GitHub stars and 312 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Perl with 436 GitHub stars and 152 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Bosque Language
Pros of Perl
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    • 72
      Lots of libraries
    • 66
      Open source
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      Text processing
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      Powerful
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      Unix-style
    • 47
      Regex
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      Stable
    • 32
      Concise syntax
    • 29
      Hackerish
    • 22
      Easy to use
    • 16
      Swiss army chainsaw
    • 13
      Code Less Do More
    • 12
      CPAN
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      Freedom
    • 8
      All purpose
    • 5
      Readability
    • 5
      Familiar
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      Many ways to do it
    • 5
      Community
    • 4
      Object-Oriented
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      Modular
    • 4
      Smart (does alot for you)
    • 3
      Postmodern
    • 3
      It's the best one-off task language
    • 2
      For a man
    • 2
      Good man pages
    • 1
      Auto case variables
    • 1
      Single Source Library (CPAN)
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      Multi-threaded support
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      Multiparadigm
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      C-style
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      Hashes

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    Cons of Bosque Language
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        Messy $/@/% syntax
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        No exception handling
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        Bad OO support
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        "1;"
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        No OS threads
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        Variables are global by default
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        Copy-on-create for interpreter-based threads
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        Barewords
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        Errors/warnings are ignored by default

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      What is Bosque Language?

      The key design features of the language provide ways to avoid accidental complexity in the development and coding process. The result is improved developer productivity, increased software quality, and enable a range of new compilers.

      What is Perl?

      Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

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