hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

  • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    106·
    1 year ago

    Sometimes I want to write a quick oneliner or a quick algorithm to test things out. Or not worry about indentation when trying a solution I might discard in five minutes.

    With Python, I don’t have that choice.

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Single line ID? What do you mean?

        Edit: I got it now.

        So I can place multiple for loops and conditional statements in one single line in Python?

        • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think it’s an autocorrect typo. Should be: If it is actually a single line, I’d argue that you do.

        • tsz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          List comprehension can actually do that, yes. This is one of the scripting aspects of python I use most commonly, and is probably one of its best-known features for creating “one liners”.