Why Perl? - Hackdot

Re:Why Perl? by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:17PM (#35647260)

> Its happy place was a sane job control language

maybe that was your happy place for Perl, but it certainly wasn't mine or that of lot of Perl users I've known over the years.

  #!/bin/perlish
  while (<>) {
    /* regex match */
    /* do some stuff, with variables or the file system or whatever */
  }

Awk theoretically is a close match for this basic structure, but Perl is closer, most of the time.

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Re:Why Perl? by worik on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:33PM (#35647429)

Yes.

I mispoke. "A happy place" I shold have said

I never learnt awk or sed bedcause I knew Perl.

That loop, often in a command line invocation `perl -e 'while(<>){chomp;......}'`

My point is its happy place was not application programming, gui systems. AS I commented elsewhere here processing every Apache hook.

Pythin suffers the same problem. It too is brilliant at the little jobs, yet there are many GUI junk piles written in it, just as happened with Perl back in the day

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Re:Why Perl? by wazoox on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:18AM (#35652167)

Perl offer auto looping : perl -n or perl -p. Typically one-liners are `perl -n -e 's/foo/bar/g'` or similar.

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