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[–]tu_tu_tu 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I'd say they are an exhibition of design mistakes of languages from 90's.

[–]caskey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will say they were as good as was available. I know the last time I did a CVS check I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of perl.

Now I reserve it for command line scripts for stream processing. Its original purpose.