* Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] [not found] ` <CAKzdPgyY1eW8O=ky5_88kP7Z0EKC1E2TjDyi4tKkzG0hfooSHw@mail.gmail.com> @ 2021-11-17 22:31 ` Adam Thornton 2021-11-17 22:46 ` Bakul Shah 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Adam Thornton @ 2021-11-17 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Computer Old Farts Followers [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 564 bytes --] On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:24 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote: > Perl certainly had its detractors, but for a few years there it was the > lingua franca of system administration. > It's still what I reach for first when I need to write a state machine that processes a file made up of lines with some--or some set of--structures. The integration of regexps is far, far, far superior to what Python can do, and I adore the while(<>) construct. Maintaining other people's Perl usually sucks, but it's a very easy way to solve your own little problems. Adam [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 959 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 141 bytes --] _______________________________________________ COFF mailing list COFF@minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] 2021-11-17 22:31 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] Adam Thornton @ 2021-11-17 22:46 ` Bakul Shah 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Bakul Shah @ 2021-11-17 22:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Computer Old Farts Followers On Nov 17, 2021, at 2:31 PM, Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:24 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote: > Perl certainly had its detractors, but for a few years there it was the lingua franca of system administration. > > It's still what I reach for first when I need to write a state machine that processes a file made up of lines with some--or some set of--structures. The integration of regexps is far, far, far superior to what Python can do, and I adore the while(<>) construct. Maintaining other people's Perl usually sucks, but it's a very easy way to solve your own little problems. [Random tangent] you can tell when a programmer first started seriously programming by the tools or languages they reach for first! Perl used to be very popular in hardware verification. May still be. And that has to do with when *verification* became a serious activity. Just as machine learning mostly uses python as it sort of came of age when Python was all the rage. Just Go became populat with cloud computing with Kubernetes and all! So you can also tell when an computing subgenre became popular by their language of choice! _______________________________________________ COFF mailing list COFF@minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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