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I started with Perl in the 1990s and well it was the only game in town for the things I needed to get done. Now as a semi-professional programmer (Temporary wor
by baldfat 11y ago
I started with Perl in the 1990s and well it was the only game in town for the things I needed to get done. Now as a semi-professional programmer (Temporary work and side jobs at work) I have learned to love Racket (Lisp Family), awk/sed and R.
Since I only do this less then full time my brain can't hold everything in it for Perl or similar languages. I can sit down with a Lisp and just work it out with the parts I know and have to look up things far less.
- chucky_z 11y agoInteresting you mention awk. Do you use that professionally? For string manipulation I use almost exclusively pipe output to bash then format/grok with awk/sed, and wish that more (any?) languages implemented them fully!
- baldfat 11y agoI run several awk scripts to format csv files for my reports. awk is a great programming language but I use it for tiny 20 line scripts at most.