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Hmm. That Perl doesn't work. I'm sure that was in my copy of Learning P… | |
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@mwl You've got the 1st edition Camel Book, I assume? Which covers Perl 4, … | |
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@cstross Yep, first edition "with minor corrections." I studied it be… | |
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@mwl I tried doing something in perl recently, after almost a decade of no perl… | |
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@m Perl has added stuff, but my primordial perl5 still works fine. | |
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@mwl Now if you had used awk(1) instead, code from the 1970s would still run ju… | |
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@mwl Yep, I have the original first printing! Signed by Larry!But Perl 5 is a v… | |
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@cstross cool!and: oh, yeah, perl5 broke things. More of a learning curb.I wrot… | |
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@mwl @m That’s quite a feat. The past few years it seems like each release ha… | |
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@grumpybozo @m no, it just means my code is so simple and kludgy they can't… | |
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@mwl Makes sense, that they would take it out if it doesn’t work. 😘Also, t… | |
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@gumnos @mwl Tim beat me to that, but I was also thinking, “wouldn’t have t… | |
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@mwl At one point I was very fluent in Perl 4 and stumbling through Perl 5 as i… | |
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@cstross @mwl Perl 5, like Python 3, should have gotten a new name. :) I rememb… | |
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@dmoonfire @cstross @mwl At least #Perl6 eventually got a new name: Raku. Unfor… | |
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@mjg @mwl @dmoonfire @cstross #Perl and #Rakulang being outside of the tech gia… | |
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@profoundlynerdy @mwl @dmoonfire @cstross I would be happy if BigCos that depen… |