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		favadi on Oct 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why doesn't Bash’s ‘set -e’ do what I expected? (2... IMO, Perl is perfect for this purpose. A good thing about Perl is, it doesn't really changed any more. So no need to spend time keeping up with latest developments like Ruby or Rust.

lloeki on Oct 7, 2022 [–]

> it doesn't really changed any more

it does change, it just has outstanding backward compatibility and new feature (including parser-level) opt-in per module.

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