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Top Forums Programming To Perl or not to Perl, that is the question... ;o) Post 303037691 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of August 2019 11:25:39 AM
Old 08-09-2019
"Dying" is hyperbole. By that metric I'm sure awk has been dead for half a century. It still persists where its feature set is useful, as does Perl.

One thing that makes Perl especially useful is its excellent - and several - libraries for dealing with Excel files. If your question ends with "...with Excel files in Unix", 9/10 times the solution will involve Perl somewhere.

But the main thing I see Perl used for these days is DNA. Makes sense to throw the most featureful string language there is at the longest string there is...

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Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs. Besides the typing restriction, programs cannot freely use the Python standard library (although about 25 common modules, such as random and re, are currently supported). Also, not all Python features, such as nested functions and variable numbers of arguments, are supported. OPTIONS
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