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Blame Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. Oh and Larry :)
by tankenmate 9y ago
Blame Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. Oh and Larry :)
- tannhaeuser 9y agoWhy are the awk guys to blame for Perl syntax?
- tankenmate 9y ago> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.) Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. Usenet article <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com> (1992) -- Larry Wall
- vgy7ujm 9y agoI don't see the problem here... those are good tools and Perl have those tools power in the core language++ Good stuff if you ask me.
- fnord123 9y agoThe good thing about awk is that it's limited. So you know when to stop using it and move to use a different language when your requirements exceed the comfort zone of awk. Larry Wall came and made a language inspired by awk that doesn't give feedback on when you're out of the comfort zone. This lets you make a mess before you know what you've done (aka technical debt). The same problem 'that killed Smalltalk and could have killed ruby' too (thanks, Bob Martin).