Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
by brtastic on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:37AM
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If it allows you to be productive and fits the way you think, why not use it? And what is your metric for "being better"?
Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
by IshKebab on Sunday February 02, 2025 @02:25PM
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Languages don't really exist in isolation, especially general purpose languages. They depend on community for things like libraries, support, compiler & tooling development, etc.
You can use a dead language if you want, but you're going to lose out on all of that. And you'd better not ever want anyone to help you with your projects...
AWK is Posix. Python is not. End of the story. POSIX awk will run everywhere, and GAWK has networking capabilities.
Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
by IshKebab on Sunday February 02, 2025 @04:09PM
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That's a very naive take. Posix is not the holy scripture. And have you heard of this OS called "Windows"? It's pretty popular.
In servers, IOT, embedded... Windows doesn't exist.
Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
by maxlybbert on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:09PM
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Personally, I find Perl’s modern object modules interesting and fun. And I’ve always liked the fact that many Perl built ins were based on POSIX, which doesn’t seem common in other languages.
> It’s sad to see this happen to such a revolutionary-for-its-time language.
Revolutionary? Please. It was certainly a decent-for-its-time language. I used it a lot! 25 years ago. Why on earth would you use it today though? We have so many better options. Even Python is better at this point.