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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • His entire blog is now gone.

    Here's what he originally posted:

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    Perl vs. Python. 2 interpreted languages, whose purpose is to prevent you from writing C/C++ code. Programmers have argued for years on which is better, and many fanboys have been seen swearing at each other for no real reason. I'm here to say which is (IMHO) the better. To discover that, we must first see what those languages are meant to do for the average programmer.

    C and C++ are undoubtedly the best programming languages out there in te
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    • His entire blog is now gone.

      Whoa. I took a 15 year old off of the Internet. I'm sort of proud and sort of not.

      • I posted a more welcoming comment, posting equivalent code in C and pointing out that the Perl code was much easier to read, once you understood it, and that brain cycles were better spent working on the programming problem than the specifics of how to remove spaces from a string. I invited him to look into Perl some more before writing it off. I was hoping it might do some good.
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        xoa

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