Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 23:12 on 11 Dec 2006

> > One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that
> > I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully
> > replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other shell-inspired
> > scripting languages like awk managed to avoid.

> Such as?

The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially the ad-hoc
syntax and complex macro-style variable substitution.

I'm not sure but I'd consider even csh more consistent and rational than Perl.

There's stuff above here

A. Pagaltzis 23:05 on 11 Dec 2006
- peter (Peter da Silva) 23:12 on 11 Dec 2006
  - A. Pagaltzis 23:59 on 11 Dec 2006
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  - Robert Rothenberg 00:00 on 12 Dec 2006

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