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It reifies the process of munging and pattern matching on text streams in a way few other dynamic languages do. Perl 6 particularly so with grammars (similar to
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
It reifies the process of munging and pattern matching on text streams in a way few other dynamic languages do. Perl 6 particularly so with grammars (similar to lex) as a first-class construct.
It's more appropriate to compare it to SNOBOL and AWK.
- latenightcoding 11y agoYeah let's compare Perl with AWK lol
- Mithaldu 11y agoYou may find it funny, but one of the motivators for Perl being made was to get a better awk, which is why it's highly compatible with awk syntax.