On Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 1:48 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:35 AM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
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>> Wasn't Perl created to fill this void?
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>> Void? I thought Perl was created to fill a much-needed gap.
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> There was and is a need for something to sit between Shell and C.  But it
> needn't be filled by Perl.
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> The chief problem with Perl, as I see it, is it's like 10 languages
> smashed together.  To write it, you only need to know one of the 10.  But
> to read it, you never know what subset you're going to see until you're
> deep in the code.
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> Perl is the victim of an experiment in exuberant, Opensource design, where
> the bar to adding a new feature was troublingly low.
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> It was undeniably influential.
>

It's what paved the way for python to fill that gap...

Warner

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