in reply to Perl Holiday Haiku

... there's 99 bottles of beer on my wall :-) .... happy solstice

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku

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Re^2: Perl Holiday Haiku
by ack (Deacon) on Dec 17, 2009 at 04:21 UTC

    Wow! So he juggles bottles as well as perls?!!

    ack Albuquerque, NM
      .... yes, i am a very advanced multitasker...... :-)

      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
      Old Perl Programmer Haiku
Re^2: Perl Holiday Haiku
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 19, 2010 at 00:44 UTC
    WHAT IS Perl
      See Perl

      From my own view, it is a great language that overcomes problems in the C language, like variable types and prototypes, which slow down writing code.

      Perl takes care of alot of computer details , behind the scene, so that you can write code the way you might "think it" in your head. Most notably for me, is that you can think of a variable as just that(in most cases), and not have to worry if it's text, float, or whatever.

      It is sort of an evolution in the computer-man interface, making it easier for man to think like a computer, so he can write useful programs.....fast

      Its free. It runs and compile well on a wide variety of computers, and is sort of the older sibling of newer languages like Python and Ruby, which also aspire to make programming easier than doing it in C or C++.

      It was originally developed for assisting in text processing, but has just grown into a "can-do-anything" sort of glue and duct tape language, which is extremely useful.


      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
      Old Perl Programmer Haiku