With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle

Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by yellowapple on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:52AM (#13348667)

Perl was my first real foray into programming (I'd dabbled in BASIC and C++ previously, but neither really appealed to me). It just "fit". Even nowadays, Perl feels nice to work with, probably because of how expressive it is. There's a lot to learn, though; every time I jump back into Perl for something, I end up learning something wacky and new.

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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by guitarbill on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:16AM (#13349975)

> I end up learning something wacky

You pretty much summed up the problem :)

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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by yellowapple on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:28AM (#13354860)

Guilty as charged :)

I've been working on a lexer/parser/interpreter/compiler/whatever for a pet programming language project, and in the process of trying to figure out how to keep track of line numbers in the source files I'm parsing, I inadvertently discovered that Perl already tracks that for me (in "$."). Who knew?

(I mean, Larry Wall obviously knew, of course, but whatever.)

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