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Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:04:25 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jean Louis wrote:

> CPAN and Perl are not obsolete, not at all

Today most people will turn to Python instead of Perl for
solving a general task. Development in Python is very fast and
the code is to the untrained eye easier to read than Perl code
which has a more cryptic and esoteric style.

But that doesn't mean Perl is obsolete and people will still
use it for many years to come.

For Emacs there should be many alternatives and packages that
deal with Perl code. `perl-mode' is built-in (defined in
perl-mode.el.gz), you get that when you open a .pl file.

Interestingly, while Perl feels old, and Python pretty new,
the difference is only 4 years: Perl is from 1987,
Python 1991.

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