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What if people don't like Perl for real reasons and not just because of knee-jerk taboo? I've actually written a few Perl programs and I really did not enjoy t
by burntsushi 3y ago
What if people don't like Perl for real reasons and not just because of knee-jerk taboo?
I've actually written a few Perl programs and I really did not enjoy the experience at all.
Its regex engine has good Unicode support, if you can figure out how to enable it. I'll give it that.
- kstrauser 3y agoI’m with you there. I don’t hate Perl. I don’t think it’s taboo. I just can’t think of a scenario where I’d want to use it over another tool. Perl was the first non-C language I wrote significant amounts of Unix code in. In particular, I wrote lots of web and server admin projects with it. I know Perl well enough to 1) appreciate why people still like using it, and 2) not want to use it myself.