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minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI still use perl every day. It’s more portable than Java, faster than Python (both to write and execution speed), and makes hard things easy.
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 day agoAs an avid scripter, I do hate it a bit that Perl is indeed the most viable environment for scripts that run fast and work in most Linux distros and in MacOS. But I will prefer Lua anyway.
I still use perl every day. It’s more portable than Java, faster than Python (both to write and execution speed), and makes hard things easy.
As an avid scripter, I do hate it a bit that Perl is indeed the most viable environment for scripts that run fast and work in most Linux distros and in MacOS.
But I will prefer Lua anyway.