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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by gridlockd on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:26AM (#24080025)
Aren't we talking about "a better shell scripting language"? At the point where a Perl program becomes "hard to maintain", what would the bash alternative even look like?

Perl code is often written once and then runs for years without issue. I have on occasion fixed broken Perl scripts despite having practically no experience with the language. It wasn't a problem at all, because your average maintenance job is "something was moved" or "we're switching out X for Y", but not "we need to rewrite this complex system that is a Perl script for some reason".

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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by licebmi__at__ on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:22AM (#24081487)
>It wasn't a problem at all, because your average maintenance job is "something was moved" or "we're switching out X for Y", but not "we need to rewrite this complex system that is a Perl script for some reason".

I would intuitively agree with you as there are hundreds of unnoticeable perl scripts doing their job, but as someone with moderate experience with the language, I can say that when I did maintenance tasks, they were mostly the second kind.

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