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One thing that you take for granted in perl is the interchangeability of lists and Arrays.

2007 March : #comments 2007

One thing that you take for granted in perl is the interchangeability of lists and Arrays.

Ruby vs Perl Arrays : #comments 2007

There are other shells - psh (I think this is perl based), but I've never found a use for them even though I program in perl extensively.

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In that vein perl allows you to say use English which then turns a lot of short hand variables into long human readoable ones.

A few more Python thoughts from a Perl guy : #comments 2008

I probably should have guessed (you did knock together a lat/long parser in perl script when the need arose).

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Then throughout it they work through a progression of building an increasingly functional client in perl, the same progression they use in all these language chapters.

On the anti-perl bias in publishing : #comments 2007

So in perl you can say: some_func ( 'arg1', 'arg2', @my_array, 'arg3'); and all the elements of @my_array will be passed individually to some func.

Ruby vs Perl Arrays : #comments 2007

It seems natural to want to have the representation end up as (in perl, for instance):

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Blosxom is licensened under the GPL, and is written in perl, and has been hacked up and down the block by a bunch of very sharp coders.

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And "Sister Dora," who wrought with such brave spirit in English perl-houses, "whose story is as a helpful evangel, was the bride of the world's sorrow only."

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