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Like a "real" language, Perl has dialects -- including the grunts of the lone boy raised in the wild by wolves. Don't blame the boy. (And remember, he was rai
by pasbesoin 14y ago
Like a "real" language, Perl has dialects -- including the grunts of the lone boy raised in the wild by wolves.
Don't blame the boy.
(And remember, he was raised by wolves. Yeoowww!)
- thwarted 14y agoDon't blame the language either. It just is what it is. But there is value in the things you can learn about the code, the people, and the times by taking an anthropological view of it. In fifteen or twenty years we'll be reading rants from people who had to cut their teeth on some overly designed, needlessly abstracted, difficult-to-build-all the-dependencies-for rails app. It's cyclical.
- pasbesoin 14y agoAlong those lines, reading Programming Perl is a pleasure in good part because Larry et al. spend time explaining not just the language but also where some of it comes from and its rationale (or not so rational ;-). Note that I'm referring to the first or second edition (maybe the third); I understand that the fourth edition is just recently out. TIMTOWTDI