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That's easy to do. But that's not the end of it. The whole point of Perl is avoid a salad of C and shell utils. Also in many cases the moment you have to deal
by kamaal 8y ago
That's easy to do.
But that's not the end of it. The whole point of Perl is avoid a salad of C and shell utils. Also in many cases the moment you have to deal with >2 files at a time shell utilities begin to show their limits.
The resulting code is often far more unreadable than anything you will ever write in Perl.
- Annatar 8y agoI’m sorry you believe that, but it’s simply not true, especially since UNIX is designed to be driven by a combination of binary code and shell executables. Perl is a mess whose syntax borders on hieroglyphic once poured into software. That doesn’t mean that it’s not a capable language; but it’s not a language in which written programs are maintainable or easily debuggable.