Dave Tang wrote:
I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming languages, so powerful in text processing?
Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks largely to Perl :). Today's scripting languages have the same text processing abilities as Perl. You will find this true of Perl's documentation; some of it has not been updated in quite some time.
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