in reply to What's so unique about Perl?

What's so special/unique/good in that perl (other people, can't even spell Perl;), that makes you so interested in it?

How about laziness, impatience and hubris?

Really, it doesn't take much to do whatever you want to do, it doesn't take long and later on you can brag to the world how quick you've done it and how simple it was! :-)

Also, the community! Ah... the community...

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Re^2: What's so unique about Perl?
by jacques (Priest) on Jul 04, 2005 at 18:48 UTC
    Really, it doesn't take much to do whatever you want to do

    No, I can't agree with that. There are many things that Perl can do only with great effort. Just because you can do something in Perl, doesn't mean that your task was "quick" and "simple".

    And besides, should everything in programming be quick and simple? Where would the challenge be?

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      And besides, should everything in programming be quick and simple?

      Not everything, but expressing your algorithm/solution should.

      Where would the challenge be?

      In finding the better algorithm/solution.

      ihb

      See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!

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