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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @03:14AM (1 child)
"Sorry but there it is. Perl has better OO than Python does."
Perl 5's OO is surreal. You used to have to roll your own objects via 'bless', but now libraries abound for all kinds of crazy object systems. Sounds like a nightmare, but they all work together. If that's not having your cake and eating it too, I don't know what is.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @03:32AM
I'm on keto, you insensitive clod!
Okay, not really. Any diet that doesn't mandate biscuits and gravy regularly can fuck right off.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.