Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?

[Jean Louis]

* Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-19 15:18]:
> > You may use any tools. Including you may combine tools.
> 
> 1. What about use emacs as an IDE to debug perl code?
> 2. Nowadays, it seems that many packages on cpan cannot be updated in
> time like those packages on pypi for python, so I think whether this
> means that Perl is obsolete.

  You may use Emacs to debug perl code, I guess it is M-x cperl-mode

  CPAN and Perl are not obsolete, not at all.

  Jean