On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:59:56AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * 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.
Let's stay on topic, please. This is a hates software list. Perl is software, and therefore, hateful. Take your defence of Perl to its advocacy list. Abigail
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