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Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl by brtastic on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:37AM (#42909301)
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"?
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Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl by IshKebab on Sunday February 02, 2025 @02:25PM (#42911003)
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...

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Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl by anthk on Sunday February 02, 2025 @02:45PM (#42911158)
AWK is Posix. Python is not. End of the story. POSIX awk will run everywhere, and GAWK has networking capabilities.
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Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl by IshKebab on Sunday February 02, 2025 @04:09PM (#42911856)
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.
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Re:Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl by anthk on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:37AM (#42930257)
In servers, IOT, embedded... Windows doesn't exist.
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