Re:The “No Code” Delusion
by smhenderson on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:50AM
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Indeed. When I was finally exposed to Unix (SCO, yuck!) and Linux (Slackware, yay!) it was because I was trying to learn C and wanted free tools because I couldn't afford any commercial stuff at the time. But before I did much with C I became quite proficient with Perl. This really wasn't that long after absorbing all the VB material I could find at the time so it was interesting going from the one to the other, not to mention the OS differences.
I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point. VB? Not so much! :-)
> I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point.
Same here!
Re:The “No Code” Delusion
by smhenderson on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:35PM
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I suspect there's more of us than we think!
:) how is Perl out of style ? ... 20 years ago it had features the more enterpricey languages only got in the last few years
Re:The “No Code” Delusion
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:17PM
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VB had access to the entire Win32 API. Nothing was impossible.
Per smhenderson (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038454), you'll have to take that up with Bruce McKinney, not me; I merely quoted it to compare.
Think what you will of the readability of Perl, but it's hard to beat its motto: "making easy things easy and hard things possible."