That is partly how it was designed

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by ben_tilly

9/3/01 7:25:46 PM

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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