in reply to Re: What's so unique about Perl?
in thread What's so unique about Perl?

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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Re^3: What's so unique about Perl?
by ihb (Deacon) on Jul 05, 2005 at 16:33 UTC

    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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