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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by anthk on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:15PM (#36526809)
This. I'm tired of these Gen-Z ers babbling about Perl and having no idea of what a proper Perl based project would look. Hint: most Debian tools and OpenBSD's package manager are Perl based.
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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by wott on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:11PM (#36527515)
It's like when we, Gen-X ers, were repeating bad stuff about COBOL without having seen a single line of it.

Then I saw a real COBOL program and... well... it was even worse than what I had imagined :-)

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Re:The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition by anthk on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:23AM (#36531220)
Perl has both oneliners/spaggethi code and games like Pangzero.
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