in reply to Perl listed as famous hack

Hate to break it to the brilliant mathematicians at zd, but linux != perl. Sounds like its the "++9 Famous Hacks", if not a contrived list to begin w/...

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Re: Re: Perl listed as famous hack
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jan 13, 2004 at 12:49 UTC
    Like I said, I don't give much weight to anything zd...


    -Lee

    "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
      It's listed under Yahoo!'s post popular stories (on the US site)

      They have Linux and Perl together but they describe the two as different entities. Larry Wall is credited for Perl, it says "Larry Wall took two programs called 'sed' and 'awk' and put together PERL, one of the most widely used scripting tools around.".

      Update: I removed the Yahoo! link because it was a reference to the same zd story the OP made.