14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
5 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:49 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Reminds me of the *only* O'Reilly book I didn't like: I think it was Larry's original book on Perl - the index was *dreadful*, couldn't find anything.
On the other hand, if you wrote a perl program following those examples, it would almost certainly still run today, with the only change it might need being to escape @ symbols that you had in double-quoted strings. That's pretty rare.
Well, yes. And I can do the same with my favorite language of all, ANSI C.
Umm, yeah - now. In 1987 when perl was released you'd have been using K&R C which needed some changes when compilers started demanding the syntax from the ANSI changes. Or worse, some compiler with it's own unique syntax.
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