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If you have a Linux system, try this: find / -name 'perl*' -prune -o -name '*.pl' -print 2>/dev/null You will probably find a bunch of random scripts in v
by klodolph 1y ago
If you have a Linux system, try this:
find / -name 'perl*' -prune -o -name '*.pl' -print 2>/dev/null
You will probably find a bunch of random scripts in various places. A lot of random system admin stuff got written in Perl, and those stick around for a long time. There is also a ton of miscellaneous software tooling that got written in Perl, like scripts to generate some C code that you compile.
Perl sometimes still gets used because it’s available on systems that don’t have Python.
- JdeBP 1y agoViznut uses perl to build the fonts from source in Unscii. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f
- goku12 1y agoPerl is much better at text processing than Python. I reach straight for Perl when solutions using grep, sed, awk, cut and tr gets weird. And I'm saying this as someone with two decades of experience in Python and next to nothing about Perl.