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[learnedax]

I'm not the only one who's written perl* just to construct an LJ comment, right?

... right?

*or some similar lightweight script

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[learnedax.livejournal.com]

ObRetort: in superlightweight scripting, as in so many areas, Ruby remains the bastard stepchild of perl. But at least you can be glad that oneliners like

cat <file> | ruby -ne 'printf("%-6s%s", $., $_)'

(which as you can plainly see adds line numbers to a file) demonstrate the inherent cleanliness that Ruby lords over perl.