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Bah. I learned Perl with Perl 4, which was a lovely little regularization of sed, awk, sh, and unix system calls. Absolutely fantastic, loved the heck out of it
by beat 13y ago
Bah. I learned Perl with Perl 4, which was a lovely little regularization of sed, awk, sh, and unix system calls. Absolutely fantastic, loved the heck out of it.
Perl 5 is an abomination.
- eieio 13y agoI have 0 familiarity with Perl 4, and some(but not a lot) of familiarity with Perl 5(I have maintained Perl, I don't ever use it for a new project). What makes you call it an abomination? I'm not a big fan of the language, but I have no idea why it'd be worse than Perl 4.
- beat 13y agoThree words, in quotes… "object oriented programming".
- nine_k 13y agoIt was `man perl4` that gave me one of the best fair warnings I ever encountered in a software product: "Generally [these features] work as you'd expect, unless you expect consistency". It helped me enormously in understanding the philosophy behind Perl.