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There's a long article from Larry Wall (Perl's inventor) on Perl being Postmodern. It was probably the first time I saw it explained as such. An interesting tal
by 3rdAccount 8y ago
There's a long article from Larry Wall (Perl's inventor) on Perl being Postmodern. It was probably the first time I saw it explained as such. An interesting talk even if you don't like Perl much:
http://wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://wall.org/~larry/pm.html
- 52-6F-62 8y agoThis is a great talk. I started reading it on the bus on the way into work. It actually made me look at Perl differently. I kind of understand the reasoning behind the syntax I hated so much for so long. Now I kind of want to learn it... funny thing.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoI'm in a similar boat. I hated it too until I learned it was supposed to be the Unix language of choice that sits between needing Bash/Awk/Sed & C/C++. At that point the odd conventions and philosophy make more sense. I still use Python most of the time for my scripting needs, but am glad I can switch to Perl every now and then when I need it. The one liners are great too for terminal work.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoI can see that. Especially the image of the girders and ductwork showing really resonated. I would have been more suspicious of him just being a good salesperson if he wasn't a great programmer. It's on my todo list, now.