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Perl was released in 1987. The languages released in the 90s all stole Perl/Awk's good idea (have an associative array/hash map/dict type as a builtin data type
by earthboundkid 6y ago
Perl was released in 1987. The languages released in the 90s all stole Perl/Awk's good idea (have an associative array/hash map/dict type as a builtin data type) but had much nicer syntax.
- cutler 6y agoPerl5 was released in October 1994. That's the version which competes with Python, Ruby and PHP because it introduced OOP.
- dhosek 6y agoI stuck with Perl even when Ruby came along and offered to be the next best thing because Ruby didn't have a use strict equivalent. Having to declare variables before use is a good thing.