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Why are the awk guys to blame for Perl syntax?

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tankenmate8y ago· 1 in thread

> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

    Usenet article <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com> (1992) -- Larry Wall

I don't see the problem here... those are good tools and Perl have those tools power in the core language++ Good stuff if you ask me.

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