On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:49 AM, <m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com