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I inherited some piece of code that made use of an extremely long and complicated jq script. I simply gave up understanding the whole thing, and restored the b
by TurboHaskal 3y ago
I inherited some piece of code that made use of an extremely long and complicated jq script.
I simply gave up understanding the whole thing, and restored the balance in the universe by rewriting it in Perl.
- hnlmorg 3y agoNow you just need to rewrite Perl in Rust and compile that to WebAssembly. And the circle of HN is complete.
- LargeTomato 3y agoI know perl is useful. I know it's going to help me. It seems like you can get away with a quick perl script whereas a python script would attract scrutiny. But it's such a painful language to look at.
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