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I don't think this is correct. If you come from Unix programming, perl should not at all be unfamiliar. It was an intentional amalgamation of shell, sed, awk, e
by ryl00 7y ago
I don't think this is correct. If you come from Unix programming, perl should not at all be unfamiliar. It was an intentional amalgamation of shell, sed, awk, etc. And there was a time when that was the "mainstream" programmer community.
- Sharlin 7y agoI think the key word is "was". Yes, in the beginning it was a pretty straightforward amalgamation of a bunch of standard Unix tools. (Although it should be noted that those were even then in a separate category from languages meant for application programming!) But that's where the Perl timeline started to diverge from the mainstream, in which production-ready programming languages have mostly grown to agree on basic concepts and terminology, and to emphasize design principles like clarity over cleverness and readability over writability.