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Yeah so many people shooting themselves in the foot by failing to take advantage of this powerful tool - as you say especially for stuff that you might have oth
by jph00 3y ago
Yeah so many people shooting themselves in the foot by failing to take advantage of this powerful tool - as you say especially for stuff that you might have otherwise used an overly-complex bash script for.
- nerdponx 3y agoI find Python much easier to read and write, whereas I find it hard to write Perl as anything but an unstructured blob. Its main advantage for me is that interpreter startup time is significantly faster than Python, Ruby, Node, and most Scheme implementations. So it's useful if I ever need to call an external program for some text processing inside a shell script. Otherwise I strongly prefer the maintainability of Python.
- quickthrower2 3y agoNow with LLMs to reduce feature discovery pain there is less of an excuse! Edit: this applies to any language not just Perl. I use it to learn Python things I would otherwise miss.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI once went looking for something like Ansible that was implemented in Perl. Does such a thing exist? I think declarative system orchestration got popular well after perl's popularity declined. In any case, I did not find anything.
- shrubble 3y agoThere is CFengine which can have modules for it written in Perl, but itself is not written in Perl.
- singingfish 3y agoRex: https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex never used it but
- SoftTalker 3y agoThanks!