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I’d sooner pipe a dozen POSIX commands together than write a single line of Perl.
@davel @learnbyexample
Too bad. You are missing out on a great language.
I walked away from Perl about a decade ago, after having used it for about a decade. I have not missed it.
I play with it sometimes, kinde like some of the syntax, especially regex and
;. I tried doing regex withsedwhen working on one personal script, but was getting errors way too often everywhere. Perl did what I wanted in a few lines and gave me desired output, so I just used that.Imo, it doesn't really matter what you use for writing code for your personal use as long as it works. : )