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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by freedomben on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:06PM (#23631597)
Awk and Ruby aren't on your list, any experience with those that you could compare/contrast with Perl?
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by staycoolboy on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:42PM (#23632126)
Awk is very similar in syntax, but doesn't provide the sophistication of match vs subst, and doesn't support suffix modifiers.

I only used Ruby briefly over 20 years ago so I can't comment.

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