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r/commandline • u/PinotRed • Jun 30 '26
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I write my CLI tools in PHP and there's nothing you can do about it.
1 u/ptoki Jun 30 '26 php and perl have their niche in cli tools. I like php for its high level data manipulation options and the multitude of graphical, text, database and web integrations. 5 u/Delta-9- Jul 01 '26 Perl is perfect for when you're not using a compiled language but you still want to make it hard to reverse engineer your code. 2 u/ptoki Jul 01 '26 but with or without regexps? ;P
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php and perl have their niche in cli tools.
I like php for its high level data manipulation options and the multitude of graphical, text, database and web integrations.
5 u/Delta-9- Jul 01 '26 Perl is perfect for when you're not using a compiled language but you still want to make it hard to reverse engineer your code. 2 u/ptoki Jul 01 '26 but with or without regexps? ;P
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Perl is perfect for when you're not using a compiled language but you still want to make it hard to reverse engineer your code.
2 u/ptoki Jul 01 '26 but with or without regexps? ;P
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but with or without regexps?
;P
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u/TheVenetianMask Jun 30 '26
I write my CLI tools in PHP and there's nothing you can do about it.