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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the There’s-more-than-one-way-to-do-it,-but-sometimes-consistency-is-not-a-bad-thing-either dept.

Ruth Holloway at Red Hat's marketing site, OpenSource.com, has a retrospective on three decades of perl covering some history and a few of the top user groups. The powerful and flexible scripting language perl turns 30 at the end of this year. It is a practical extraction and reporting language widely used even today and has a dedicated community. It's ease of use and power made it the go-to tool through the boom of the 90's and 00's when the WWW was growing exponentially. However, its flexible syntax, while often an advantage, also functions as a sort of Rorschach test. One that some programmers fail. Perhaps two of its main strengths are pattern matching and CPAN. The many, mature perl modules available from CPAN make it a first choice for many when needed to draft something quickly or deal with a quick task.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:39AM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday October 12 2017, @10:39AM (#581073) Journal

    Most code will look baffling if you run all the lines together like that. Vim has a great plug-in, perltidy, you should run.

    Beyond that it seems intelligible to me, once you understand regex's.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:08PM (#581093)

    Most code will look baffling if you run all the lines together like that. Vim Emacs has a great plug-in...

    FTFY

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @04:01PM (#581188)

      No, Emacs doesn't have plugins. It has packages.