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One of the things about Perl is that I can't quite believe myself how far it has fallen. I was never a Perl monk by any means but I knew enough to get by. And
by lordgroff 6y ago
One of the things about Perl is that I can't quite believe myself how far it has fallen.
I was never a Perl monk by any means but I knew enough to get by. And why did I not even think about it? I haven't coded Perl in years, but if my memory serves me correctly, bundling extra dependencies in Perl was a heck of a lot less painful than Python too.
- ksherlock 6y agoWhat dependencies? OP wants to replace a bash/sh script, not left pad a string.
- ThePhysicist 6y agoYes, Perl's package ecosystem CPAN (the "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network") was lightyears ahead of other systems at the time (late 90s / early 2000s), it provided modules for everything, which made you so incredibly productive. You need a DNS library? Just go to CPAN. CGI functionality? CPAN. Parsing some obscure file format? CPAN. Really sad it lost so much traction in the last decade, I partially blame it on the failed Perl6 endeavour. I also mostly use Python these days but looking at my old Perl scripts Python really doesn't come close in terms of succintness.