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in thread Working in parallel

that's what I love about Perl. You can describe this big, hairy-looking task, and then “just whip it out” in a few dozen lines.

Ditto. That is as good a description of what is good about Perl as I seen in a long time.

It's just a shame that so many people want to turn it into Java; in the interests of "modernity".

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Re^4: Working in parallel
by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Aug 25, 2010 at 03:46 UTC

    Well, we shall see what actually happens.   On the one hand, “that’s how the art always advances.”   On the other, despite the best of intentions, the process of reaching that critical mass ... well, it’s very hit-and-miss.   Seem to be a lot of good programmers working on it, though.   We’ll see.

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