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--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:59:56AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * 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. > >=20 > > > Such as? > >=20 > > The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially > > the ad-hoc syntax and complex macro-style variable > > substitution. >=20 > I can't see a mention of either in this thread. What do you mean > by "macro-style"? >=20 > > I'm not sure but I'd consider even csh more consistent and > > rational than Perl. >=20 > Uhm, that's certainly your prerogative. Let's stay on topic, please. This is a hates software list. Perl is software, and therefore, hateful. Take your defence of Perl to its advocacy list. Abigail --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFflMBBOh7Ggo6rasRAknrAJ43RK6K1bW7OYQBMvGa2Lh88z3qOwCfZV7H iHq2QoByLS4Oqt2Jo3F8L9w= =w0I6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--There's stuff above here
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