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in thread Perl influences?

I think that there was some lisp influences as well.
Notably, "map".

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Re^3: Perl influences?
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on May 06, 2005 at 07:59 UTC
    I was under the impression that eval was one of the most lispish feature of perl.

    "Most self-respecting scripting languages such as BASIC (some versions, anyway), Perl, Tcl, LISP, and Python have a feature that clearly sets them apart from systems programming languages like C: the ability to treat character strings as little programs."

    Advanced perl programming, chapter 5"