Today I updated a Perl script I wrote back in February 2017 to create an ICal feed. Whilst making my change I discovered an odd character escaping issue.
Perl as a scripting language is handy for this sort of thing as the module I wanted to look at was on disk as a plain text file I could edit easily. So I was easily able to read the module in question and find the bug.
I was also easily able make a small edit to test my idea and see if it worked.
Had this been a compiled language, I don’t think I’d as easily been able to quickly make the change and see that it worked.
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