2022-05-27

Re: Perl is still a great choice

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Over at foo.zone Paul has a nice post about Perl, the programming language:

Perl (the Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a battle-tested, mature, multi-paradigm dynamic programming language.

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Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the last years ...

=> gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi | local copy

So sad, indeed.

I too, love Perl. And I could not have phrased nearly as well as Paul. I even learned Perl 4 when I started out, because Perl 5 was yet to be released. Without Perl I would have had a hard time to extract and condense the data from my many simulations into smaller, meaningful chunks, including but not limited to the data as \LaTeX tables, ready to be included into the appendix of my thesis.

While I highly appreciate that I do not have to install perl upfront (alpinelinux), I can install perl whenever I want.

Python? What's that? The Language lacking braces? Not my cup of tea.

Happy hacking,

~ew

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