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Perl seems like a great language for a lot of text processing jobs, but while its learning curve isn't too steep, it goes on forever. I will continue to use it
by chrisBob 11y ago
Perl seems like a great language for a lot of text processing jobs, but while its learning curve isn't too steep, it goes on forever. I will continue to use it for quick little projects like cleaning up excel files, but I don't think I could ever get into things like Perl golf.
- vampirechicken 11y agoPerl golf is meant as a thought exercise. Code should be human readable. The compiler will cope with verbose code just as easily as terse code.