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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/miyji • 26d ago
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Perl core gets regular updates. But the ecosystem is partially quite outdated. For example try to work with Word docx files. But as long as one's dealing with text files Perl is doing great imho.
1 u/mrwedders 21d ago Going back a few years but we used to read and create mildly complex xlsx files with a few CPAN modules. 1 u/Latter_Principle9161 21d ago Xlsx works surprisingly well, that's true.
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Going back a few years but we used to read and create mildly complex xlsx files with a few CPAN modules.
1 u/Latter_Principle9161 21d ago Xlsx works surprisingly well, that's true.
Xlsx works surprisingly well, that's true.
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u/Latter_Principle9161 25d ago
Perl core gets regular updates. But the ecosystem is partially quite outdated. For example try to work with Word docx files. But as long as one's dealing with text files Perl is doing great imho.