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Perl is still unmatched for one-liners, and by extension, one-liners that graduate to short scripts.

• cutler 6y ago
  Yes, of all the Perl books in my collection Tim Maher's "Minimal Perl" (Manning) is still the one I dip into regularly.
  • boring_twenties 6y ago
    Thinking about this some more, I now feel really sad for anyone who doesn't use perl (i.e., almost everyone). Its immense power at the command line is something they'll never experience. Nothing today even comes close.
    • cutler 6y ago
      Even sadder that no-one will probably now start their programming career, as I did, with Perl as their first language. I feel honoured. At the time it was a toss-up between Java, which my house-mate was using every day to write banking apps at work, or Perl - that funky linguistic creation which granted you magical powers. No contest.