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by rurcliped 2516 days ago
Perl is good for a competent coder who doesn't work as a developer, occasionally has a one-off coding task, and wants to incorporate a code excerpt from the web and immediately execute it (and then throw the code away). Languages with whitespace as syntax often fail the "immediately execute" requirement.
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That seems like a stronger argument for Excel than for Perl.