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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’d sooner pipe a dozen POSIX commands together than write a single line of Perl.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

Back when Perl was the language of choice for bioinformatics, I found a huge performance boost pre-processing large (~1Tb) text files using built in unix tools like sed and awk with regex. So while it might take me a full hour to peck out the correct incantation, the task would then run in an hour, compared to four hours or more for the same task using Perl.

So many pipes..

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The beauty of Unix philosophy

A program does one thing, and it does it well

[-] davepar@mastodon.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

@davel @learnbyexample
Too bad. You are missing out on a great language.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

I walked away from Perl about a decade ago, after having used it for about a decade. I have not missed it.

[-] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I play with it sometimes, kinde like some of the syntax, especially regex and ;. I tried doing regex with sed when working on one personal script, but was getting errors way too often everywhere. Perl did what I wanted in a few lines and gave me desired output, so I just used that.

Imo, it doesn't really matter what you use for writing code for your personal use as long as it works. : )

[-] Jilanico@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Costs €5 but you can only play it once

Jokes aside, cool concept :)

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 6 points 3 months ago

I feel like the 8 is either a typo or some joke I'm not recursive enough to understand

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Look at the crossed 0 in the list. It was supposed to be 0 and someone botched the reading.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe it was intentionally wrong so people reading it might notice and learn the mistake?

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

This is actually a really cool idea. I feel like this would even be good for adults!

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

This website is amazing, thank you for sharing

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