Is it still a thing?

I've used it a couple of times and it just werks, unless it doesn't and that's where Perl takes a giant dump on everything. Can't think of a more difficult language to debug than this steaming pile.

>>60964736
Great midpoint between bash and C and usually available. I probably wouldn't use it for big, complex applications, but being more shell-like makes it better step up from bash than python.

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>>60964736

I still use it for quite a lot of things

but it's mainly because I haven't fully learned python yet, and there's a lot of bio-informatics libraries to interact with NCBI's database not present in python

I doubt anyone outside biology and medicine still uses Perl for serious tasks

It's a comfy language, though

>>60965012
I was thinking the same

Yes, unfortunately