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This seems like a nod to python. :-) I started using Perl in the late 80s as a replacement to complex sed and awk scripts, but switched to Python in 2010. I st
by dano 7y ago
This seems like a nod to python. :-)
I started using Perl in the late 80s as a replacement to complex sed and awk scripts, but switched to Python in 2010. I still remember the day that mod_perl hit me, boom! Scaling inside Apache.. 1999 was a lifetime ago.
- sleepybrett 7y agoThat's my primary use case for perl 'when it gets a little to complex for bash, just use perl'. Which is what perl was initially designed for. I never made the switch to python as it seemed to have more aspirations than that. I always thought that people who took perl further than 'great for sysadmin type tasks' were a little nuts.