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Post #6,774
by ChrisR
8/27/01 9:55:57 AM
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New Unix scripting...
To my way of thinking, Perl is an amalgamation of scripting languages - shell, awk, grep, and sed come to mind, with a lot of C syntax thrown in for good measure. If you use Perl for a number of other things, you don't have to drop into these lower level scripting languages, though it certainly helps to be fluent in them as well.
Post #7,586
by ben_tilly
9/3/01 7:25:46 PM
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New That is partly how it was designed
It has been said that, Perl is the Cliff-notes of Unix.

Intentionally so. What Larry Wall did is take a lot of useful things from Unix and tried to put them into one package, with somewhat tighter integration. (For instance Unix pipelines are list-oriented with lists being designated as lines. Perl is list-oriented with lists being scalars.)

Larry Wall will be the first to tell you that he isn't very original. But he is a great integrator. And personally I would say that whether you like or dislike Perl, you have to admit that he changed the face of scripting languages...

Cheers,
Ben
     Getting the owning window of an HTMLElement? - (admin) - (35) - Aug. 23, 2001, 11:55:41 AM EDT
         *sigh* - (Fearless Freep) - (21) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:04:28 PM EDT
             You're a lot of help. ;-) - (admin) - (20) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:16:33 PM EDT
                 thanks! - (Fearless Freep) - (19) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:24:43 PM EDT
                     Re: thanks! - (admin) - (18) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:30:09 PM EDT
                         Re: thanks! - (Fearless Freep) - (5) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:34:58 PM EDT
                             Last impression - (admin) - (4) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:38:20 PM EDT
                                 Ahh....forgot that - (Fearless Freep) - (3) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:47:51 PM EDT
                                     Have you considered telling people? - (admin) - (2) - Aug. 23, 2001, 02:09:19 PM EDT
                                         Are you kidding? - (Fearless Freep) - (1) - Aug. 23, 2001, 03:56:33 PM EDT
                                             Well... - (admin) - Aug. 23, 2001, 04:26:08 PM EDT
                         Excuse me? - (ben_tilly) - (11) - Aug. 23, 2001, 04:54:44 PM EDT
                             Well, they're wrong. - (admin) - (10) - Aug. 23, 2001, 05:40:06 PM EDT
                                 Everything has its place - (ben_tilly) - (9) - Aug. 24, 2001, 10:14:21 AM EDT
                                     Your horse is getting taller by the minute. - (tseliot) - (8) - Aug. 24, 2001, 11:45:13 AM EDT
                                         What is a scripting language? - (ben_tilly) - (7) - Aug. 24, 2001, 01:31:34 PM EDT
                                             Good and bad scripting. - (static) - (2) - Aug. 27, 2001, 01:54:23 AM EDT
                                                 Unix scripting... - (ChrisR) - (1) - Aug. 27, 2001, 09:55:57 AM EDT
                                                     That is partly how it was designed - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 3, 2001, 07:25:46 PM EDT
                                             would scripting languages be anything with an interpreter? - (boxley) - (3) - Sept. 2, 2001, 12:29:41 AM EDT
                                                 Yup, IMO. Oh, and you forgot one: Java. -NT - (CRConrad) - Sept. 2, 2001, 08:02:48 PM EDT
                                                 Not necessarily. - (static) - Sept. 3, 2001, 02:19:02 AM EDT
                                                 I wouldn't draw the line there - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 3, 2001, 07:18:31 PM EDT
         Try '.parent' - (drewk) - (12) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:18:18 PM EDT
             Nope. - (admin) - (11) - Aug. 23, 2001, 12:28:19 PM EDT
                 Either call from the element itself or pass params - (tseliot) - (1) - Aug. 23, 2001, 02:50:37 PM EDT
                     I passed params. - (admin) - Aug. 23, 2001, 03:48:22 PM EDT
                 My stuff's not in front of me... - (ChrisR) - (8) - Aug. 23, 2001, 02:51:58 PM EDT
                     We own all of the frames. - (admin) - (7) - Aug. 23, 2001, 03:49:36 PM EDT
                         hmmm... - (ChrisR) - (5) - Aug. 23, 2001, 06:35:02 PM EDT
                             No dice. - (admin) - (4) - Aug. 24, 2001, 09:02:43 AM EDT
                                 Non standard - (ChrisR) - (3) - Aug. 24, 2001, 11:52:28 AM EDT
                                     Yes, that seems to work. - (admin) - (2) - Aug. 24, 2001, 12:43:26 PM EDT
                                         Natch - (ChrisR) - (1) - Aug. 24, 2001, 03:00:55 PM EDT
                                             Still some problems with DOM in IE 5.5 - (admin) - Aug. 25, 2001, 03:34:12 PM EDT
                         "All your frame are belong to us"? - (Fearless Freep) - Aug. 23, 2001, 06:51:50 PM EDT

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