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harmil
7y ago
I gave a separate answer for Perl 6, but as for Perl 5: Yes, absolutely. I think everyone should know Perl 5 if you ever touch a Linux system. It's installed everywhere and gives you the largest power/keystroke for command-line ut
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harmil
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Perl 6 is a great language to learn if your goal is to become a more all-around versed programmer. It has constructs from every major family of programming languages and some features that I've never seen in any other language (NFG str
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harmil
11y ago
ntpd guarantees (under the default settings now, though that's new... you can ask it to shoot you in the head, but I don't recommend that you use firearms in this way) that the clock will never go backwards. You're thinking o