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Hmm, why did the author use Perl for convsion if they didn't know it? Besides of regex (which is everywhere albeit in different dialects), I don't think Perl kn
by mkesper 2y ago
Hmm, why did the author use Perl for convsion if they didn't know it? Besides of regex (which is everywhere albeit in different dialects), I don't think Perl knowledge gives you very much nowadays.
- rbanffy 2y agoIt teaches you the value of clear comments in the code. ;-) Not as much as APL, but, still, I can write Perl code I will not be able to understand the following week.
- layer8 2y agoHere is the Perl script: https://github.com/8bitsten/public/blob/main/c64/stormtrp/prefix_lines.pl https://github.com/8bitsten/public/blob/main/c64/stormtrp/pr... Perl is ubiquitous (installed on virtually every Linux system) and has had excellent backwards compatibility for decades. It’s hard to beat in that combined metric.