/prog/ - Perl — World4ch

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 12:13

Why do you all love Perl so much?

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 12:14

Who does?
I use asm.js

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 12:35

I love perl because i can write lots of solutions quickly.

I often do prototypes in perl, for proof of concepts. Later i write them in java.

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 12:44

cause we can create symta implementation quickly in perl

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 13:05

Perl's just a shit tcl.

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 13:26

In fact, brainfuck has more practical use than Perl, because of easiness to implement a conformant brainfuck interpreter, which given a C/C++ to brainfuck compiler, provides you with instant access to all open source software. Brainfuck: write once - run everywhere.

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 16:10

>>6
'brainfuck' is crude and sexist.

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 16:54

>>7
So is your face.

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 16:57

ADRIA DICKS

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 17:37

Perl is useful and only looks ugly when the person writing the code makes it look that way. Contrary to languages like Ruby, Lisp, etc., which force you to do things in specific ways, Perl allows you to use to come up with many different solutions and pick the one that looks the best.

Also, there is no language with better reg ex handling.

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 17:39

>>10
Also, there is no language with better reg ex handling.
This is a myth. JavaScript is the best at that. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new-regexp.html

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 17:53

>>11
VROOM VROOM!!!

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 18:24

>>11
Implementing a small subset of Perl's regex capabilities does not make it "best".

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 19:08

>>10,11
Factor does it better: http://useless-factor.blogspot.com/2009/03/implementation-of-factors-regexp.html

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