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Telling a Computer to Do Things

91 points · 37 comments · vismit2000

  1. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
    There is, of course, a programming language designed to do shelly things as succinctly as a shell script: Perl.
    1. disgruntledphd2 · · focus · HN ↗
      I was amused to see DeepSeek using it recently, as I didn't realize it was installed on my machine (macos with brew).

      Ruby is much, much prettier for similar purposes though, and so that's what I'll learn if I ever need to do this more frequently.

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