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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ]
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:31:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic1NririVVsoJLb037YU0qZpucBphngqVkoP9mP2_svC_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgyY1eW8O=ky5_88kP7Z0EKC1E2TjDyi4tKkzG0hfooSHw@mail.gmail.com>


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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.

Adam

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-17 22:32 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             ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2021-11-17 22:46               ` [COFF] " Bakul Shah
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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