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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by peterwwillis on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:02PM (#24457303)
Agreed - in that I write it in Perl if I need it to just work right now. Perl is still, to me, the most useful programming language for completing a generic program in the smallest amount of time. (Part of that is due to CPAN, and part to the gazillion built-in features of Perl 5)
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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by jes on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:17AM (#24458803)
I agree. I’m an older programmer (almost 61) and I’ve been using Perl for a long time - maybe 20 or 25 years. I reach for it when a job feels like a bit too much for a bash (1) script.

I don’t go out of my way to teach or suggest Perl to my younger colleagues. I don’t know why that is. They don’t usually reach for Python, which I think would probably be their best choice.

Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon ... and by the way, can you please stay off my lawn?

:)

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