Idle Curiosity

[Peter Murray]

Perl has seriously erroded my C skills.  

  "What do you mean I can't use a variable in as a string in one
   statement and then as an integer in the next?"

  "This string would be so easy to match if I had regular expressions..."

  "What?  Associative arrays are not built into the language?"

  "Memory allocation?  Who needs to worry about memory leaks?"

..not to mention the portability advantages of Perl.  For work or play, I
use more Perl now than ever before.


Peter

--On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 9:51 AM -0800 jpapier <jpapier at infolink.org> wrote: 

> I've resisted posting this apropos-of-very-little message for some time,
> but have finally ceded to the impulse:  Like many of you I find Perl to
> be super handy at work, since the majority of library-related tasks seem
> to rely on text parsing, manipulation, etc.  But for everything else,
> especially at home,
> I use && like C.



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