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Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] by collyw on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:28AM (#17142400)
>CPAN became a clusterfuck

Did it? Not used Perl for a while but I never needed to worry about backward compatibility and versions with CPAN, while I find I do with Python (to be fair I am programming more complex stuff than I did in my Perl days).

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Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] by FractalLP on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:47AM (#17142748)
I've used Python for years and a little Perl. CPAN works pretty well when used with ActiveState...not sure about Unix. Python on Windows stinks when using Pip and there is some VisualStudio C++ library dependency you need and they don't even have anymore. With Python it is best to get a large distribution that bundles everything already such as Anaconda...not worth the hassle.
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