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		freedomben on June 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly Awk and Ruby aren't on your list, any experience with those that you could compare/contrast with Perl?

staycoolboy on June 24, 2020 [–]

Awk is very similar in syntax, but doesn't provide the sophistication of match vs subst, and doesn't support suffix modifiers.

I only used Ruby briefly over 20 years ago so I can't comment.

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