Perl 6 Optimism

Re:Perl 6 Optimism by kamaal on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:31PM (#16215362)

Pretty much anybody using Unix is using Perl one way or the other.

Its a bit like C. The language is so neatly integrated with the OS that its hard to beat it.

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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by ioddly on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:38PM (#16217965)

After reading this I couldn't think of anything I personally use that depends on perl, so I tried `pacman -Rs perl` to see what needed it. There's a surprising amount of packages that depend on it - openssl, git, automake...

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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by vgy7ujm on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:43PM (#16215479)

This is very true.

Not many languages feel so "Unixy" as Perl.

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