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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

Comments

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Correct.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

::raises eyebrow::

Probably not.

[page-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Not in the least, SSI's back to my box :)

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

print("I've written perl in comments for demonstration purposes, but that's about it.");

[londo.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I feel about Perl being described as a "lightweight" language.

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Er ... I presume csh/tcsh counts; what about sed?

You can guess my answer based on my questions.

[katkt.livejournal.com]

This makes me curious what it is you wanted to say in an lj comment that required a programming language to construct. I don't usually find that the things I was to put in a comment are subject to simplification through coding.

This comment, for example, would just be much more complicated if I were to create it using perl. I suppose I might be able to do some sort of compression algorithm on it so that the code was shorter than the comment, but it would still take much longer to generate, because I'd have to figure out the algorithm, and I'd probably still have to type out this whole comment and feed it it.

I could see if you were giving some sort of formatted list or if you had some data you wanted to massage and then give to someone, but ... those aren't the sorts of things I frequently end up putting in LJ comments.

[jducoeur]

<ObLangSnobbery>I haven't, but probably would. But in Ruby, of course, rather than Perl...</ObLangSnobbery>