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08-09-2019

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I'm not a great perl hacker either. It was my first Scripting Language after bash in Linux ~20 years ago. The syntax is uncomfortable to me. It's quite fast. It's a usable general purpose scripting language, that scales a lot beyond shell scripting. I hadn't been using it for real work for a long time now.

I would not say it is a must learn. It has some unique points in it's purpose of using. So I will probably use it, if those points matter.

- great stability of syntax (stick to version ~5.00x if you like to have that)
- great availability(still available in the newest systems)

Some people still use it for current code(e. g. Proxmox, great open source virtualization management solution and mail filtering solution).

If you like to generate good code, you may do in perl too(or even the opposite - if you like).

The version number rised considerably in the last years and wikipedia mentions that features of the not-really-used perl 6 are being integrated zu perl 5 step by step. Maybe those features are worth a look?

Perl 5 version history - Wikipedia

Its Anti-Hype atmosphere appears kind of cool to me.

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PY3COMPILE(1)                                                                                                                        PY3COMPILE(1)

NAME

       py3compile - byte compile Python 3 source files

SYNOPSIS

          py3compile [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR_OR_FILE [-X REGEXPR]

          pycompile -p PACKAGE

DESCRIPTION

       Wrapper around Python standard library's py_compile module to byte-compile Python 3 files.

OPTIONS

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -f, --force
              force rebuild of byte-code files even if timestamps are up-to-date

       -O     byte-compile to .pyo files

       -q, --quiet
              be quiet

       -v, --verbose
              turn verbose mode on

       -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE
              specify Debian package name whose files should be bytecompiled

       -V VRANGE
              force  private  modules to be bytecompiled with Python 3 version from given range, regardless of the default Python 3 version in the
              system. If there are no other options, bytecompile all public modules for installed Python 3 versions that match given range.   VER-
              SION_RANGE examples:

                 o 3.1    version 3.1 only,

                 o 3.1-   version 3.1 or newer,

                 o 3.1-3.3        version 3.1 or 3.2,

                 o -4.0   all supported 3.X versions

       -X REGEXPR, --exclude=REGEXPR
              exclude items that match given REGEXPR. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to exclude

AUTHOR

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