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I'll raise the glass: here's to Perl, for being the first language I could actually get shit done in. Unmaintainable? Who cared. Got shit done. Too many ways t
by maligree 14y ago
I'll raise the glass: here's to Perl, for being the first language I could actually get shit done in.
Unmaintainable? Who cared. Got shit done. Too many ways to do things? Who cared. Got shit done.
I have this totally false feeling that BACK THEN* we wrote IRC bots and we were happy. And `perl -e '"A"x800'` was the destroyer of worlds.
* - shit, I just realized I'm young.
- 5teev 14y agoI like that Perl tends to do what you wanted it to do, rather than what you told it to do. Bugs in other languages are often because of vice-versa.