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this was my understanding as well. perl grew out of sed/awk/bash, so might as well learn perl. that said, i found it gives a lot of 'foot-guns'.
by red-iron-pine 2y ago
this was my understanding as well. perl grew out of sed/awk/bash, so might as well learn perl.
that said, i found it gives a lot of 'foot-guns'.
- thesuperbigfrog 2y ago>> i found it gives a lot of 'foot-guns'. Most of those are for backward compatilibity with earlier versions. Recommend you place the following at the top of your Perl scripts: use strict; use warnings; These are recommended for all scripts: https://learn.perl.org/first_steps/ https://learn.perl.org/first_steps/