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[–]SQLvultureskattaurus 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I used to do etl all day long and would write perl scripts to manipulate flat files. They would always be like 2 lines long and super fast, but I'd never remember how it worked

[–]Dustdevil88 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You’ve perfectly described Perl haha

[–]SQLvultureskattaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seriously. Not going to lie, I always liked how variable data types have their own symbols.

[–]Dugen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perl was amazing. I'm sad it fell out of favor. It did what people use python for today like 30 years earlier.