From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ]
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:46:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8BD5ECC0-A489-4B19-8117-3FD7F4F657E7@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic1NririVVsoJLb037YU0qZpucBphngqVkoP9mP2_svC_g@mail.gmail.com>
On Nov 17, 2021, at 2:31 PM, Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:24 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perl certainly had its detractors, but for a few years there it was the lingua franca of system administration.
>
> It's still what I reach for first when I need to write a state machine that processes a file made up of lines with some--or some set of--structures. The integration of regexps is far, far, far superior to what Python can do, and I adore the while(<>) construct. Maintaining other people's Perl usually sucks, but it's a very easy way to solve your own little problems.
[Random tangent] you can tell when a programmer first started
seriously programming by the tools or languages they reach for
first!
Perl used to be very popular in hardware verification. May still
be. And that has to do with when *verification* became a serious
activity. Just as machine learning mostly uses python as it
sort of came of age when Python was all the rage. Just Go became
populat with cloud computing with Kubernetes and all! So you
can also tell when an computing subgenre became popular by their
language of choice!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-17 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 17:00 [TUHS] Book Recommendation Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 17:54 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] Jon Steinhart
2021-11-16 17:57 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-16 18:00 ` Dan Cross
2021-11-16 18:04 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-16 19:53 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 20:05 ` Warner Losh
2021-11-17 19:12 ` Norman Wilson
2021-11-17 20:46 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-11-17 20:52 ` Warner Losh
2021-11-17 21:17 ` Dan Cross
2021-11-17 22:21 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-17 22:31 ` [COFF] " Adam Thornton
2021-11-17 22:46 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2021-11-18 0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 20:04 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-19 20:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 21:48 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-19 22:28 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 23:17 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-18 21:03 ` George Michaelson
2021-11-18 21:39 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-17 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-18 0:56 ` Dan Stromberg
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiXinxBQGRqoeGMcG9CwTA5BNeU-LY164f-ZLYA4obsyuA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-11-16 18:47 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation John Foust via TUHS
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 21:35 ` Duncan Mak
2021-12-02 22:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 22:34 ` Rob Pike
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