Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)
by anthk on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:15PM
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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.
Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)
by HeckFeck on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:36PM
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And it was (may still be) used in the Windows build environment!
Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)
by singingfish on Thursday May 05, 2022 @09:58AM
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VMS too!
Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)
by bmn__ on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:59PM
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> whipupitude quotient
That's an axis, not a quotient. See page 2/slide 3&4: <https://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/vhll-slides....>
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."