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by tyingq
1443 days ago
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He did take some inspiration from AWK, but Perl wasn't meant to be just an AWK replacement. For me, in the time when it first came out it was really handy, as you had access to most of the C stdlib without having to write C. I had a job in the 90's writing software that was a protocol hub of sorts, and Perl was really nice for testing since I could use tcp and udp sockets, interact with serial ports, etc. There wasn't really anything comparable at the time. |
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