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* Abigail <abigail@xxxxxxx.xx> [2006-12-12 08:00]: > 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. >>> >>>> 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. > > > Let's stay on topic, please. This is a hates software list. > Perl is software, and therefore, hateful. This is a statement of the obvious. > Take your defence of Perl to its advocacy list. Defence, where? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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