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		brightball on June 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby: A great language for shell scripts Perl is deeply underappreciated and needs a lot more love. One of the keynotes at the polyglot conference that I run is going to be Perl talk and I'm really looking forward to it.

pdimitar on June 23, 2024 [–]

Does it still require global library / module installations for your script's dependencies? If so, hard pass.

kqr on June 23, 2024 | [–]

It does not, and has not for at least a decade!

pdimitar on June 23, 2024 | | [–]

So any guides on how to make a self-contained Perl script that needs dependencies?

shawn_w on June 23, 2024 | | [–]

See https://metacpan.org/pod/pp for one tool to do that.

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