Any reason to learn perl if i already know python?

any reason to learn perl if i already know python?

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no

The company you work for has a lot of legacy Perl scripts that you have to maintain

python for slavery
perl for freedom

Only if you learn Perl6. Or even Perl11, if you want to get with the time, grandpa.

Rewrite into bash/python

Yes, if you want to ruin your life by being the one poor soul to maintain ancient perl scripts.

not really, but it's useful to have a passing knowledge of it if you ever have to mess around with perl scripts that some fucker wrote 15 years ago

people who write new things in perl should be shot

There are still some linux distros and BSD's that don't ship with python but ship with perl.

i, personally, find better reasons to learn another language than already knowing a different one.

Perl is a lot better than Python.

What is better about it? Genuinely curious.

learn perl 6 becase it's fun and also grammars

don't (self motivatedly accept responsibility to) fix what isn't broken

you could enable strict typing

I'll keep adding perl to every codebase I touch and you can't stop me

bump

>perl 6
it shit

this, learn at least perl11
perl11.org

the only reason to use perl is its on everything. Therefore perl 5

No, and of you didn't already know python, then that would only be a reason to learn python.

Last week I wanted to share data in-memory between multiple standalone processes in Python, seems like it's just not possible. In Perl you can just use IPC::Shareable

ONLY perl 5 IS LEGIT
ALL OTHER IS PROFUCTION OF EVIL AND RETARDED PEOPLE

its actually a comfy language, not sure why it fell out of favor aside from being the javascript/python of 90s
Has great regex tooling