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Sounds like powershell.
by andi999 4y ago
Sounds like powershell.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y agoPowershell takes heavy inspiration and some syntax from Perl.
- pmoriarty 4y agoIncidentally, so does Ruby.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoOnly because Perl takes heavy inspiration and syntax from Unix shells.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y agoIt's actually a bit more than that. In "Windows Powershell in Action", Bruce Payette (one of the co-designers of Powershell) states: "NOTE PowerShell uses the at symbol (@) in a few places, has $_ as a default variable, and uses & as the function call operator. These elements lead people to say that PowerShell looks like Perl." "In practice, at one point, we did use Perl as a root language, and these elements stem from that period. Later on, the syntax was changed to align more with C#, but we kept these elements because they worked well. In Perl terminology, they contributed significantly to the 'whipupitude quotient' of the language."
- anthk 4y agoPerl had an amazing Win32 support back in the day, and still does. https://perldoc.perl.org/Win32 https://perldoc.perl.org/Win32 https://metacpan.org/search?size=20&q=win32 https://metacpan.org/search?size=20&q=win32 RAS, OLE, COM, ODBC. Perl did magick on NT/2K/XP.
- HeckFeck 4y agoAnd it was (may still be) used in the Windows build environment!
- singingfish 4y agoVMS too!
- bmn__ 4y ago> whipupitude quotient That's an axis, not a quotient. See page 2/slide 3&4: <https://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/vhll-slides.pdf https://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/vhll-slides....>
- melling 4y agoPerl: 1988 Powershell: 2006
- joeberon 4y ago