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I'm not sure if I'm reading your comment correctly but i don't think Perl was ever intended to fit the UNIX philosophy. What with TIMTOWTDY being a central tene

• fjsolwmv 9y ago
  Perl was specifically written as a rebellion against the Unix Way: unifying all those little tools into one giant language.
• cobbzilla 9y ago
  I thought the acronym ended with an "I", TIMTOWTDI, "there is more than one way to do it". But I don't know if this is totally anti-unix; there's something more subtle, unix systems try to have a "proper layering" of tools, starting with high-level stuff like compilers and languages, sitting atop utility programs and shell, which ultimately sit on an OS kernel that offers its own similar layering of complexity, with simple and clean primitives at the very bottom (files, sockets, etc). Working within this ecosystem of OS/libs/tools, you can compose any particular solution in a wide variety of ways, there's usually more than one "right way" to solve a problem. But the pieces you build your solution upon are generally more and more specialized/single-purpose as you move down the stack.
  • MadcapJake 9y ago
    You're right. I don't know how my brain accepted that Y at the end "There's more than one way to do yoga"? lol