Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)

Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by tenebrisalietum on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:44AM (#31262081)

Only because Perl takes heavy inspiration and syntax from Unix shells.

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by thesuperbigfrog on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:47PM (#31264318)

It's actually a bit more than that.

In "Windows Powershell in Action", Bruce Payette (one of the co-designers of Powershell) states:

"NOTE PowerShell uses the at symbol (@) in a few places, has $_ as a default variable, and uses & as the function call operator. These elements lead people to say that PowerShell looks like Perl."

"In practice, at one point, we did use Perl as a root language, and these elements stem from that period. Later on, the syntax was changed to align more with C#, but we kept these elements because they worked well. In Perl terminology, they contributed significantly to the 'whipupitude quotient' of the language."

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by anthk on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:15PM (#31264639)

Perl had an amazing Win32 support back in the day, and still does.

https://perldoc.perl.org/Win32

https://metacpan.org/search?size=20&q=win32

RAS, OLE, COM, ODBC. Perl did magick on NT/2K/XP.

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by HeckFeck on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:36PM (#31265513)

And it was (may still be) used in the Windows build environment!

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by singingfish on Thursday May 05, 2022 @09:58AM (#31273407)

VMS too!

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by bmn__ on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:59PM (#31265071)

> whipupitude quotient

That's an axis, not a quotient. See page 2/slide 3&4: <https://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/vhll-slides....>

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