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in reply to Arrays are not lists
Wow.... How did I grind away at Perl for weeks, and read
more than one excellent book, without realizing that arrays
are not lists?
I've fixed several errors caused by this misconception
without figuring out why the original code failed. This
explanation will go a long way toward getting me off my
blood pressure medication. |
RE: RE: Arrays are not lists
by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2000 at 19:28 UTC
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Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic
Rubbish Lister, but don't tell anyone I said that.
-- (BUGS section of "perldoc perl")
Here is my theory.
Perl is a list-oriented language. Widely known and
(un)popular languages like VB, Pascal, C (and derivatives)
generally are not. Therefore the list-oriented features
of Perl tend to be downplayed by both authors and
programmers, leading to much confusion.
Make sense? | [reply] |
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