On 2018-05-08 20:46, Derek Martin wrote: > I dare say no one should want to work in Perl anymore... It's such a > horrible mishmash of a lanugage. But C is probably not the best tool > for this job either. Python has modules for handling e-mail and for > talking to bugzilla, and for my money it's way, way nicer to code in > than Perl.
Since my nick on CPAN used to be THEDEVIL, let me be the devil's advocate here. I agree for anything on a "modern" scale - anything that takes more than a main program file plus maybe a handful of helper modules. But for certain class of jobs within this ancient scale, perl is still best IMO. I tentatively define this class as jobs whose string wrangling plus system call parts dominate everything else. Example: https://gist.github.com/nobrowser/dfeb275f3273d1e3887c2a24e6f596a6 -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
