Re: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

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Definitely trailing commas. Close to 20 years of programming in C leaves you kind of set in your ways, and there's an involuntary wince whenever I leave a comma hanging, followed by relief when perl says, "Yeah, no problem", when the C compiler would say "Uh-uh, can't do that" and force you to change it.

And the frustrating thing is, I can see arguments for both sides .. I just like being on this side of the fence right now.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^2: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be: by pengvado (Acolyte) on Oct 18, 2006 at 23:38 UTC
What C compiler is that? 10 years of gcc leaves me frequently using trailing commas.	[reply]
Re^3: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be: by talexb (Chancellor) on Oct 19, 2006 at 03:19 UTC
I'm trying to remember -- I wrote C just about full-time from about 1984 till about 1998, then did the consultant thing for a while, some SQL, fooled around with this Perl language and ended up doing Perl full-time after that. I was using either MS C v6 or Borland's Turbo C back in 1998 .. have only used `gcc` for little toy projects, but I can just about guarantee that MS C vomits on trailing commas, and Turbo C probably does the same thing. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply] [d/l]

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