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		yjftsjthsd-h on July 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed > that's entirely a function of the developer. I would argue the same of sed/awk; you can write an unmaintainable mess, but you don't have to.

BaseballPhysics on July 9, 2023 [–]

Oh sure. IME Perl just pulls it all together into a much more convenient, all-in-one package that has all the libraries and tools you need to build anything from small scripts all the way up to large projects.

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