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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by maligree on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @06:33AM (#4937075)
I'll raise the glass: here's to Perl, for being the first language I could actually get shit done in.

Unmaintainable? Who cared. Got shit done. Too many ways to do things? Who cared. Got shit done.

I have this totally false feeling that BACK THEN* we wrote IRC bots and we were happy. And `perl -e '"A"x800'` was the destroyer of worlds.

* - shit, I just realized I'm young.

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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by 5teev on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @10:24AM (#4937865)
I like that Perl tends to do what you wanted it to do, rather than what you told it to do. Bugs in other languages are often because of vice-versa.
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