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by justinian 2482 days ago
I haven't used Perl since writing CGI in the 90s, and I'm not a fan of the syntax among other things.

But I'm great with regular expressions. It seems like everyone around me swears regexes are an impossible black magic, and so they think that I'm some epic level wizard. And I have Perl to thank for that.
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hnick 2482 days ago
I'm a huge regex fan too. The main thing I love about Perl that is missing from most (all?) other languages is that regex is plain old syntax, not an object/function/module.
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Grinnz 2482 days ago
Javascript has adopted this, among other nice things it's gotten from Perl.
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