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by amerika_blog 4570 days ago
Still the best all-purpose language. Trend languages like Ruby and Haskell are flashes in the pan.
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codygman 4570 days ago
Haskell is a trend language? It is only 3 years younger than perl!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)

"Appeared in 1990; 23 years ago"

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dons 4570 days ago
Not sure I want to do BlackScholes and MC or solving SAT problems or data structures in perl..

But text processing , hell yeah. perl -pei ftw!

The legacy is perl REs

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Mithaldu 4570 days ago
You can probably do those with PDL.pm :)

http://pdl.perl.org/?page=screenshots/index

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dima55 4570 days ago
Why not? PDL exists for numerical computation. Works fine.
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