Philip Potter wrote:
My point is that C documents its behaviour. It seems that Perl doesn't.
man perl perldoc perl http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/ http://perldoc.perl.org/ perldoc -q "Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl"
C's documentation is complete,
C is a very small, simple language.
Perl's is not.
Define "complete".
You can't tell everything about the language from the docs.
Give me an example, I'll point you to the docs. (Have you read them all?)
Perl is doing things without telling you that it will. Don't you think that's a problem?
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