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[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

"perl was probably useful once"?!

I'm willing to bet a TON of medical and banking data is still making its way through perl today. (I'm not necessarily saying this is a good thing, but I have years of experience in healthcare IT).

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 9 points 1 year ago

I use perl for that stuff (mostly automation) that's a bit too complex for bash, but doesn't need a proper project. Modern people would use python for this kind of thing. But, I'm too old to change!

[-] assa123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

and perl is orders of magnitude faster than python for document parsing

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