Back in May, writer Jun Wu told in her blog how Perl excels at text manipulation. She often uses it to tidy data sets, a necessity as data is often collected with variations and cleaning it up before use is a necessity. She goes through many one-liners which help make that easy.
Having old reliables is my key to success. Ever since I learned Perl during the dot com bubble, I knew that I was forever beholden to its powers to transform.
You heard me. Freedom is the word here with Perl.
When I'm coding freely at home on my fun data science project, I rely on it to clean up my data.
In the real world, data is often collected with loads of variations. Unless you are using someone's "clean" dataset, you better learn to clean that data real fast.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 20 2019, @01:11PM (1 child)
Perl.
I worked for almost a decade converting fresh college kids' code (Matlab, Python, and strangely: a fair bit of Fortran) to C++ so that their broken toys could be sold to real customers.
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(Score: 2) by legont on Friday September 20 2019, @05:54PM
Yes, my thoughts exactly.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.