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I actually really enjoyed Perl. It forced me to learn regex properly and I learned about parsing mail, amongst other things. These days, I just don't see a re
by jpswade 7y ago
I actually really enjoyed Perl.
It forced me to learn regex properly and I learned about parsing mail, amongst other things.
These days, I just don't see a reason to pick Perl over any other language.
Stuff like this doesn't help, I read "Perl 6 has a bizarre ecosystem", now I'm under the impression that it's not just bizarre, it's also confusing.
Perl was great because it was simple, easy to get started, great community and modules, and was ubiquitous.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoCareful with Perl-style regexpes (aptly renamed to "Patterns" in Perl 6 AFAICT) being proper. They have higher complexity than standard regexpes [1], and have been conjectured to recognize (a larger fragment of) context-free languages [2] rather than just regular languages. [1]: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html [2]: https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=406253 https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=406253
- gbacon 7y agoPerl Regular Expression Matching is NP-Hard https://perl.plover.com/NPC/ https://perl.plover.com/NPC/