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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
about I/O disciplines and I should retire to the Tassili-in-Aijer
mountains in Sahara as a camel herder :-)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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Single Paradigm Languages are dead to me! (Score:1)
The idea that a language should only provide a single programming paradigm, be it OO, Functional, Logic, etc etc etc, is both outdated and just an overall bad idea. In fact, the idea that a programming language should even just focus on a single paradigm is loosing ground as well. Just ask your favorite formerly-Java-now-Ruby fanatic and they will likely tell you how nice it is to have first-class blocks.
I would argue that Perl is not only the sysadmins Swiss Army Chainsaw, but also the programming lang