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		labster on March 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use Raku is a lot prettier than Python: `perl6 -e 'say Date.new("2019-03-12").later( :366days )' 2020-03-12 perl6 -e 'say Date.new("2019-03-12") + 366' 2020-03-12`

lizmat on March 8, 2020 | [–]

Which recently became even shorter:

    raku -e 'say "2019-03-12".Date + 366'
    2020-03-12

jimnotgym on March 7, 2020 | [–]

Probably because I have a finance background, I would go straight to Excel.

teekert on March 7, 2020 | [–]

Which makes dates out of things that are not even dates! (Like gene names)

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