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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by tootie on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:29PM (#26785985)
There was a time I did all my shell commands just directly in Perl. If you have it all in your head you can do crazy stuff pretty quickly. Especially by having libraries that you can import and invoke in one line.
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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by southerntofu on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:31AM (#26793647)
That's really nice. I never really got into perl but i was moved by some sysadmin friends back in the days playing crazy tricks right in front of my eyes... doing the same in bash would have taken me minutes or even hours, so i always felt like this was some kind of great wizardry.

But perl is not really the most user-friendly language to learn in my opinion. I think raku is much better in this regard, but unfortunately is not deployed widely (yet?).

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