Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 23:59 on 11 Dec 2006

* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-12 00:15]:
> > > 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 can't see a mention of either in this thread. What do you mean
by "macro-style"?

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

Uhm, that's certainly your prerogative.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;

There's stuff above here

peter (Peter da Silva) 23:12 on 11 Dec 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 23:59 on 11 Dec 2006
  - Abigail 06:58 on 12 Dec 2006
    - too deep to show
- Robert Rothenberg 00:00 on 12 Dec 2006

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