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I have used perl oneliners on and off for 20 years and because I don't need them every day I have to look up stuff every time. Not sure your time-saving thing

• kamaal 10mo ago
  >>Not sure your time-saving thing really works, especially if 99% of problems you have are not solved by a perl oneliner. That's because if you don't have a paradigm of thought, you are not likely to reach for a tool that works there. Most of the times, I have seen Java programmers watch in total awe that their pet weekly project, that took 40+ hours to accomplish, was basically a vim macro that they could have done in like 3 - 5 mins. That was my whole point I made, when I said, when a Java dev says they have like 10 years of experience, thats barely a Junior perl dev. I'm guessing most Python/Java programmers would find it impossible to work in project which doesn't involve a database, XML, or json. Those languages are not designed to work with a data or a compute paradigm outside of these formats.