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
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    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
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      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”.