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On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:32:16 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 26/10/2024 17:44, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>> On 2024-10-26, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 26/10/2024 02:58, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>> PHP is fair, but it's not really a good DB
>>>>     editing lang.
>>>
>>> You can say that again. Faced with preparing a huge Comma delimited
>>> data set from a very large database PHP simply died a death
>>>
>>> I wrote that bit in C.
>> 
>> Perl does that very well.
> 
> It may well. I have never written a line of it and would be happy to
> have that written on my gravestone.

I used it about 25 years ago. One thing I appreciated was the layer of 
abstraction between the code and the database.