in reply to Re^3: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018
in thread Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018
Perl should have definitely trounced PHP. Oh well.
I have more respect for R but it still does things like polluting the global namespace with historical datasets and requiring third-party add-ons to have actual hash tables. Its greatest strength is having all these libraries that minimize contact with the terrible underlying language.
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