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Thursday February 26, 2004

03:37 PM

I like perl

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Not a huge amount more to add.

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I can't resist (Score:1)

by mary.poppins (3530)

You should try out ocaml. You might like it, too.

Perl is inappopriate for some applications, where precision and efficiency
are important.

Of course, perl -ple is super-glorious for those frequent situations where
precision and efficiency don't matter so much.
- Re:I can't resist (Score:2)
  
  by Dom2 (2981)
  
  On the contrary, perl -pe is excellent for applications where you want precision and efficiency, particularly that derived from improvement over manual editing. :-)
  -Dom

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