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Perl is/was fantastic and awful. An excellent alternative to grep, awk, sed, ls, test. A lot of the greatness of Perl came from writings of Larry Wall, Mark J
by emmelaich 3y ago
Perl is/was fantastic and awful. An excellent alternative to grep, awk, sed, ls, test.
A lot of the greatness of Perl came from writings of Larry Wall, Mark Jason Dominus, Randal Schwartz, Tom Christiansen. There is so much wisdom to be gained from all their code and documentation.
- cutler 3y agoAbsolutely. The Perl Team stands unrivaled to this day by anything in subsequent communities. That and the O'Reilly Perl series.