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by hiram112
2995 days ago
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It's dusty, but I can't throw it away. Effective Perl Programming.* A long time ago, when I was a college kid with tons of free time, I'd sit for hours at Borders* or Barnes & Noble and just read computer books. God bless those employees for never kicking a 20-something poor kid out who lived on free coffee refills, yet never bought books. At the time, Perl was more significant. Something about its syntax made sense, even though nowadays I cringe at it. Though Python is worse, in a different way... A decade later, and I still sometimes need to spit out the results of a bunch of commands, iterate through them with some regex, format it, etc. Perl became the internet's 'duct-tape' for a reason. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Perl-Programming-Idiomatic-... [2] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/borders-files-for-ba... |
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