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> "Visual Basic makes 95% of your task easy and the other 5% impossible". Think what you will of the readability of Perl, but it's hard to beat its motto: "ma
by JadeNB 7y ago
> "Visual Basic makes 95% of your task easy and the other 5% impossible".
Think what you will of the readability of Perl, but it's hard to beat its motto: "making easy things easy and hard things possible."
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoVB had access to the entire Win32 API. Nothing was impossible.
- JadeNB 7y agoPer smhenderson (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038454), you'll have to take that up with Bruce McKinney, not me; I merely quoted it to compare.
- smhenderson 7y agoIndeed. When I was finally exposed to Unix (SCO, yuck!) and Linux (Slackware, yay!) it was because I was trying to learn C and wanted free tools because I couldn't afford any commercial stuff at the time. But before I did much with C I became quite proficient with Perl. This really wasn't that long after absorbing all the VB material I could find at the time so it was interesting going from the one to the other, not to mention the OS differences. I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point. VB? Not so much! :-)
- JadeNB 7y ago> I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point. Same here!
- smhenderson 7y agoI suspect there's more of us than we think!
- emilper 7y ago:) how is Perl out of style ? ... 20 years ago it had features the more enterpricey languages only got in the last few years