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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by jldugger on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:02AM (#13348694)
So like, Puppet & Chef are pretty big Ruby devops communities. And Ruby is fairly obviously inspired by Perl.
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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by ZenoArrow on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:07AM (#13348988)
Ruby's name was inspired by Perl, but I'm curious to know which language structures you think were inspired by Perl.
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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by joseph on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:29AM (#13349034)
The regular expression syntax; sigils on (some) variables; shortcuts like `bar if foo`; optional parenthesis on function calls; `chomp()` and `chop()`; those are just a few things that come to mind.
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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by coldtea on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:08PM (#13351323)
Ruby has since forever been described as a cross between Perl and Smalltalk (and some other languages), including by its creator (Matz).
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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by cutler on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:01PM (#13350635)
Read up on Matz's account of how he developed Ruby and what were his influences. Larry Wall was top his list.
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