in reply to Re^4: The Future of Perl 5
in thread The Future of Perl 5

Why are they used to ksh? :)

Because at some point in time, it seemed to be the only usable tool?

Quoting the sig of roboticus: When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

I vaguely remember one of my profs claiming that ksh was the only portable shell, because it was standardised. Well, we continued to write bash and perl scripts.

Alexander

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Re^6: The Future of Perl 5
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 19, 2018 at 18:41 UTC
    You already use ksh or bash interactively before you write your first script.

    That's why people try to reuse their convoluted one liners as scripts.

    Perl started as sh on steroids but failed to enter in the interactive shell niche.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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