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- From: futor@llnl.gov (randy j futor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Why Bother To Learn Perl?
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:37:21 GMT
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- inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) wrote:
- A lot of good things & true, but right here is where the hammer found the
- nail:
- >
- > . . . I tried it in perl. I wrote it just the way it made
- > sense, and the son-of-a-gun *worked*! The very first time out! I was amazed.
-
- Amazed. Slack-jawed. Dumbfounded. All of these & more.
-
- If you've written a lot of code over the years, the feeling you get when
- you look at a page & a half of perl & try to guesstimate just how many
- lines of C it'd take to do the same amount of work is beyond explanantion.
- It's out there 2 or 3 steps past that euphoria sometimes known as the
- "coding frenzy".
-
- To mangle the bumpersnicker:
- They'll get my perl
- when they pry it from
- my cold, dead /usr/local/bin
- __
- \/ -+- randy -+- all generalizations are flawed -+- futor@llnl.gov
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