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> perl has the distinction of being designed by a linguist ... who won the IOCC 2 times! https://www.ioccc.org/winners.html#W https://www.ioccc.org/winners.htm
by ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
> perl has the distinction of being designed by a linguist
... who won the IOCC 2 times! https://www.ioccc.org/winners.html#W https://www.ioccc.org/winners.html#W
- librasteve 3y agoin 1986 and 1987 ... yikes https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/18th-december-day-perl-programming-language-/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/18th-december-day-perl-progra... Obfuscation coding contests, Perl golf tournaments to create the shortest feasible code for a specified function, and Perl-language poetry collections have all grown up as a result of Perl's versatility. Your takeaway may well be that perl is not the kind of thing that your boss would like. My takeaway is that perl (and raku) is versatile and engenders a sense of -Ofun.