Re: on Perl

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:14:53 -0000 (UTC)

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On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:47:47 +0000, Javier wrote:

> But for system automation tasks in a Posix OS, when you want to go above
> the level of a simple shell script and use complex data structures, Perl
> is the only language that fills that gap, any other language is
> oververbose (lacks conciseness).

Still some limitations in its data structures, though. I see Perl 5.38 has 
added an “experimental” class feature, but it doesn’t do multiple 
inheritance or metaclasses. Also I’m not sure if classes are first-class 
objects or not.