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Watch 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 py

Watch 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.

obrajesse 3y ago
Author here: This was indeed a quick hack. And Perl is still my fastest language for banging out a quick prototype. (I used to be the Perl 5 project lead. I’ve spent a lot of time with Perl.)
- chefandy 3y ago
  And indeed, that's what Perl was built for!