Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:33:56 +0100
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:

Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

ITYF the people who dislike Perl are the ones who actually like the unix
way of having simple daisychained tools instead of some lump of a language
that does everything messily.

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Perl is a general-purpose programming language, just like C or Java (or
Python or Javascript or Rust or $whatnot). This means it can be used to
implement anything (with some practical limitation for anything) and not
that it "does everything".

I can be , but generally isn't. Its niche tends to be text processing of
some sort and for that there are better tools IMO. It used to be big in web
backend but those days are long gone.