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Sure, but you could've done the same thing with perl in the 80's and 90's.
by icedchai 1y ago
Sure, but you could've done the same thing with perl in the 80's and 90's.
- theshrike79 1y agoYou could also accidentally summon an Ancient One while trying to write a regex :D Perl is a fine language, but it's like using a wood chipper with no safeties. It takes extreme care and know-how to use it without splattering ASCII everywhere and making an unmaintainable write-only mess. For every beautiful and maintainable perl program (mostly irssi scripts) I've seen 99 abominations that are quicker to rewrite completely than decode wtf they are doing.
- icedchai 1y agoTrue, true. I remember writing full blown applications as perl CGI scripts, back in the day. I should see if I can dig up some of that stuff.