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ComputerSmiths

I used to code amost exclusively in Perl, primarily because of CPAN. You could find anything on CPAN. Now I use almost exclusively Python, because Raspberry Pi, and you can find almost anything with Google on Pip or Stack Exchange or ...

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Steve Bertrand

I wrote and published WiringPi::API and RPi::WiringPi specifically so myself and others can use their favourite language (Perl) on the Raspberry Pi.

At work I code in Python, but Perl has, and always will be my favourite language.