On 11/12/06 23:12 Peter da Silva wrote: >>> 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.... > >> Such as? > > The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially the ad-hoc > syntax and complex macro-style variable substitution.
What's complex about it? I *wish* Perl had complex macro-style variable substitution.
