I love Perl[1] and OCaml. I dislike the rest. It depends on the task.

> As for idup... The first several search results for "dlang idup" are all useful.

Yes, I am sure it was, I am sure an LLM would have helped too, but I think that is besides the point here.

Is it beside the point? Looking at that perl example:

$string =~ s/\d+/NUM/g;

I don't have a clue what is going on. Sure, I see the regex, but what is =~ doing?

There's only so far you can stretch most languages before you need to actually put in effort to learn them.

	▲	johnisgood 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"=~" is the operator testing a regular expression match. It should be obvious, because on the right side you see regex, and you ought to know what "=" or "==" does. FWIW, I knew this as a kid, too, despite knowing absolutely nothing about the language at the time. Anyways, you should read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463391 if you care about why I dislike the way D does it.