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  • orclev@lemmyrs.orgtoProgramming@beehaw.orgWhy Perl?
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    1 year ago

    Before there was python, before there was node, there was perl. It’s old, it’s crufty, it’s a product of a bygone age, but even today if you want to do something with regular expressions and ingesting text it’s still one of the easiest options. Of course it’s highly debatable if you should ever use regex to ingest text.



  • Automatic upvote for the Niven reference. I don’t think anything would stop Trump from grifting money from his supporters. It’s like the kobayashi maru, the only options are the least bad ones.

    In this case I think they’ve opted to split the difference and take a mugshot proving he’s still being treated like a criminal (although it would have been better to have forced him to wear handcuffs), but not release it to deny him as much free fundraising fodder as they can.

    Ultimately as you point out it won’t really matter, they’ll just photoshop something, but at least this way someone will need to put in the effort to make the image and we’ll all get some entertainment about how horrendous of a job they’ll inevitably do.