/prog/ - Perl — World4ch

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 11:17

"Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language, with syntax designed to make the code inherently obfuscated, confusing, and unreadable."

Oh, the humanity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 11:21

Fuck off, ``faggot''.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 11:35

It's No secret that Perl has shitty syntax. It sacrifices readability for utility. As far as I'm concerned, it's a fair tradeoff.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 11:58

>>3
You sound like an ~~ENTERPRISE CODER~~

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 12:03

It's just another shitty ``scripting'' language which is kawaii ^_________^ because it has literal syntax for hash tables and a bunch of ad-hoc tricks to shorten code length. Prove me wrong.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 12:10

just another
afaik it is the first such language

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 12:26

>>6
Yes, it is the first and precursor of the current crop of scripting languages, though now it is but another offering.

The first to fill that nice seriously would be SNOBOL, though, with built-in arrays, hash tables and regex-y constructs (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SnobolLanguage).

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 12:27

"Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible"

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 12:50

>>8
That's the thing with perl. Sure, you can write unreadable shit, but you can do well documented and organized code. That all depends on the coder, not on a retard, forced indentation of stuff.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 14:18

Ada > Lisp = Perl > *

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 14:23

not using javascript

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 14:51

>>10
much easier to build websites with perl than ada

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 14:58

>>12
much easier to build websites with * than Perl

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 15:14

* = ANUS

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 15:24

still true

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 15:35

Perl saved my ass many times

boss: you have a week to do this
me: haha, ok, it's easy
boss: it's monday, what's your status?
me: (oh shit) fine, let me finish it, it'll be in 2 hours

if ($dir =~ /_s23p0) {
system(<<EOT);
unzip -x $dir/rkk.zip contxt.xml
curl --username admin --pasword gil3kk -X http://127.0.0.1/managr
EOT
}

look at me, i'm l33t

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 15:43

>>13
except that's not true.

Perl

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