[Discuss] perl is dead

Jerry Feldman gaf.linux at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 13:54:27 EDT 2017


This is true. When I type 'Perl' the spell checker changes it to 'Pearl'

Sent from Galaxy S8 Android

Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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On Oct 11, 2017 1:44 PM, "Shirley Márquez Dúlcey" <mark at buttery.org> wrote:

> I know you know better than to misspell Perl. But it appears that your
> S8 does not.
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Lets get off the religious wars. I used to believe that EMACS was God's
> on
> > editor. I more recently switched to Atom. Pearl has its purposes.
> Several
> > years ago I wrote a rather complex bash script, but it became unweildly
> so
> > I ported it to tcl/tk. But I then ported it to Python for a number of
> > business and reasons. Python has a number of good graphics packages, and
> > moving from tcl to Python was pretty straight forward.  Both Python and
> > Pearl are excellent scripting languages for solving short term problems.
> >
> > I think that Rich Braun provided a quick and dirty solution for Rob even
> > though Rob mentioned Pearl.
> >
> > Sent from Galaxy S8 Android
> >
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
> > Boston Linux and Unix
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> >
> >
> > On Oct 10, 2017 2:42 PM, "Richard Pieri" <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/10/2017 1:50 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> >> > It may come as a surprise, but most GNU/Linux distros still ship Perl
> >> too.
> >> > Rumors of Perl's death are greatly exaggerated.
> >>
> >> Perl died the day it started barfing on my "legacy" Perl 4 scripts.
> >>
> >> --
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