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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by mtnGoat on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:10AM (#23361284)
i dunno, i wrote PHP scripts for the CLI that run a $100m+ business and execute many millions of times per day. PHP is great for things not web-related, i think many just didnt take the time to learn.
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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by nineteen999 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:29AM (#23361428)
Does PHP have anything approaching CPAN? That is one of the key reasons I still dust off Perl for quick and dirty things from time to time, as well as the compact and accessible regex syntax.
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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by smacktoward on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:35AM (#23361470)
Yes: https://packagist.org/
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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by aganame on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:30AM (#23402215)
What specifically do you think makes PHP especially great for that?
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