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Cool to see some Perl in a new repo. The thing I find most appealing about Perl is their backticks for going out to the shell. I know Ruby supports it too. I un
by jjice 3y ago
Cool to see some Perl in a new repo. The thing I find most appealing about Perl is their backticks for going out to the shell. I know Ruby supports it too. I understand that this can be a security issue but I find the quick shelling out so powerful for a script that also needs to do some text processing or real programming logic that the shell just isn't great for.
- chefandy 3y agoWatch out for portability, too. Personally I would consider it a last resort exclusively for local system automation too complex for bash but for some reason python isn't available. I'm not going to pretend I understand everyone else's use case though so I'm glad it exists.