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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by marcosdumay on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:50PM (#23633708)
I do recommend Haskell. (But do not go into regexes first!)

But even though it has a similar powerful set of operations for regular expressions, people mostly don't use it, because there are better ways to deal with text.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by cutler on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:53PM (#23634295)
Funny you should mention Haskell as it was used to bootstrap one of the early versions of Perl 6 if I remember.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by gbacon on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:58AM (#23637345)
Correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(programming)

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