Re^3: Perl 5.10.0 is out

It was copied from Perl6, I believe. In any case, there's nothing wrong with taking good ideas from other languages and modules. And Perl has a long history of doing so. Just look at Perl's origins (awk and sed) and all the modules that are now part of Perl.

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Re^4: Perl 5.10.0 is out by blazar (Canon) on Dec 20, 2007 at 10:54 UTC
It was copied from Perl6, I believe. I personally believe that it may have been copied from quite about some hundreds different languages which have been having a specialized function for "printing a line" before, at the same time and later than Python. The idea of actually calling it `say()` is indeed very perlish, and new to Perl 6. Cop is nothing but an annoying troll. `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Perl 5.10.0 is out by MonkOfAnotherSect (Sexton) on Dec 21, 2007 at 09:35 UTC
FWIW, say function was in Rexx and IIRC at least one LPMud driver and probably elsewhere, though the lineage of the function is hardly important ;-) But yes, Cop is nothing but an annoying troll, and I really wish he'd stop advocating Python - it's making me want to take up VBA for fun.	[reply]
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