hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

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      Single line ID? What do you mean?

      Edit: I got it now.

      So I can place multiple for loops and conditional statements in one single line in Python?

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        List comprehension can actually do that, yes. This is one of the scripting aspects of python I use most commonly, and is probably one of its best-known features for creating “one liners”.

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          I read about it since I was curious. It seems like you have to craft your code in a certain way for it to be a one-liner. Whereas with many other languages, you don’t need to do such a thing. You just put everything in one line and off you go.

          Having said that, from a challenge-seeking perspective, writing python oneliners sound fun (I really mean this.)

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            Absolutely bizarrely incorrect take on like everything you’ve stated as though it were fact. This is some classic reddit hole-digging and I’m loving it.

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              You brought me to the middle of the road in an interesting discussion about oneliners and you shove me back to the start. Way to go, buddy.

              “Hurr durr u wrong u redditor!!”

              Instead of feeling offended, why don’t you continue the conversation? Give me some proof that the stuff I read os wrong. Give me some examples, I’m curious!

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                I’m no offended. It’s just weird listening to someone make shut up about something they clearly have no experience with outside of memes, while talking like it’s complete fact. It’s a strange thing to do.

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                  At this point you’re making a lot of assumptions, and you haven’t address the main point. Keep going down that red herring. I did a bit of research, I thought my sources were legit. But oh no… instead of continuing a productive discussion, you had to go down the “u suck, meme boy.”

                  I was curious about python, with my reserves, and you’re not really helping. I hope you’re not a troll; just a fanatic, which is almost as useless as a troll.

                  I’ll give you one last chance. Otherwise, I’ll conclude that the python community on lemmy is not that welcoming.

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        I think it’s an autocorrect typo. Should be: If it is actually a single line, I’d argue that you do.