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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by CuriouslyC on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:23AM (#35386785)
Perl is a great tool for when you want to scale that text mangling file wrangling bash script to do more stuff, and pretty much in no other case.
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by nibbleshifter on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:05PM (#35389167)
A horrifying amount of applications out there that I've seen are basically just that - wrassling some text around, but with a billion layers of unnecessary abstraction.

I get to see a lot of peoples code in my job. Most of it is ridiculous levels of over engineering

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