From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl? Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:04:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87tushbawm.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5269"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:qziHYIfbeHQREMFBtzyi/+8KY4A= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 20 01:05:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kqmE7-0001Dp-Ol for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:05:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60882 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqmE6-0002Cj-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqmDC-0002CU-JZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kqmDA-0002Jx-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kqmD8-000ASP-KA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:04:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126584 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > CPAN and Perl are not obsolete, not at all Today most people will turn to Python instead of Perl for solving a general task. Development in Python is very fast and the code is to the untrained eye easier to read than Perl code which has a more cryptic and esoteric style. But that doesn't mean Perl is obsolete and people will still use it for many years to come. For Emacs there should be many alternatives and packages that deal with Perl code. `perl-mode' is built-in (defined in perl-mode.el.gz), you get that when you open a .pl file. Interestingly, while Perl feels old, and Python pretty new, the difference is only 4 years: Perl is from 1987, Python 1991. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal