Re:Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @03:18PM
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Got a lot of bustedness though. I was writing cgi-bin scripts for Perl and I remember the urldecode in Perl being busted fundamentally, like it would rewrite '%20'-> SP but not rewrite '+' -> SP so I had to write my own urldecode.
My impression is that people use Python to do most of the things that we used to do with Perl.
Circa 2001 I wrote a cookie-based authentication system for the web which had an "authentication module" of roughly 100 lines that I wound up rewriting in at least ten different languages such as PHP, Java, Cold Fusion, Tango, etc. The OO Perl version was the shortest and my favorite.
My impression is that people use Python to do most of the things that we used to do with Perl.
Circa 2001 I wrote a cookie-based authentication system for the web which had an "authentication module" of roughly 100 lines that I wound up rewriting in at least ten different languages such as PHP, Java, Cold Fusion, Tango, etc. The OO Perl version was the shortest and my favorite.