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What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language? (programming.dev)

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[–] fruitycoder 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Perl because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

I learned it because the ancient beast kept breaking because it just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat cobbled together over generations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

Hmm... OpenBSD ports system and package manager?

[–] fruitycoder 1 points 4 months ago

Lol. Oh no I hope not, but a totally different system.