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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Why can't life be more like Perl?by CubicSpline (Friar) |
on Nov 17, 2001 at 00:22 UTC ( [id://125904]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I've always enjoyed the fact that Perl was a solution to problems for which no good solution existed. I think that being driven by the desire to create a useful tool is what makes Mr. Wall's(1) contribution so special. Being the creation of an actual person (rather than a committee such as tilly described), Perl has a "personality". I think the reason that most of us here take such a shine to such a quirky language is that our personality (and, therefore, coding style and thought processes) meshes well with Perl's.
(1) I have no right calling him by his first name (: ~CS
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