* Peter da Silva <[email protected]> [2006-12-12 00:15]: > > > One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff > > > that I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall > > > faithfully replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other > > > shell-inspired scripting languages like awk managed to > > > avoid. > > > Such as? > > The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially > the ad-hoc syntax and complex macro-style variable > substitution.
I can't see a mention of either in this thread. What do you mean by "macro-style"? > I'm not sure but I'd consider even csh more consistent and > rational than Perl. Uhm, that's certainly your prerogative. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
