What is the best scripting language and why is it Perl?

>>59568976
It's powershell because microsoft

>>59568982
Wow it really give me the shivers when you say something like that powershell is awkward in the same way the Microsoft executives were hugging each other in the last build conference it is puke inducing

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>>59568976
Wrong

>>59569000
> Significant whitespace
> Slow as fuck
> Dynamic typing
> GIL
> Can't get people to upgrade after a decade
> Self argument in methods
> No switch statement
> No multiline lambdas
> if __name__ == "__main__"

nah

>>59568976
Because UNIX-like systems dominate in the world and Perl is distributed with everry UNIX-like system nowadays.

>>59569101
So is Python

>>59569104
Please kill yourself

>>59569104
Except Python is shit.

>>59569072
At least someone on this god damnn site has provided some valid arguments. Gheers!

>>59569072
Not sure whether you know what you are saying or it's copypasta, but yeah that's pretty much all one can dislike in Python.

>>59569127
Cheers*

>>59569131
Treu

>>59569104
>>59569000

Enjoy you're whitespace faggot. Be careful with Guido's dick

can python or perl pipeline objects like powershell?

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>>59568976
What I like in Perl is it's specializes on plain text processing. That's where Perl shines, and I'm kinda sad that people seem to forget Perl.

>>59569163
perl shoujo is suffering, seyiku