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0 pointsyoz-y8y ago0 comments

I started with Pascal, then learned Perl. When I was writing Pascal I was excited about stuff I could make the computer do, but pascal made me like the actual act of programming.

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larkeith8y ago

I can't tell if that's a typo or commentary on Perl.

StavrosK8y ago

Looks like a typo, I think he meant:

> When I was writing Pascal I was excited about stuff I could make the computer do, but Perl made me !@77 {{} #!@3 = ++ 90 x (%}[.

kamaal8y ago

That was not a valid example:

    $ perl -c /tmp/test.pl 
    Missing right curly or square bracket at /tmp/test.pl line 1, at end of 
    line
    syntax error at /tmp/test.pl line 1, at EOF
    /tmp/test.pl had compilation errors.
    $ cat /tmp/test.pl
    !@77 {{} #!@3 = ++ 90 x (%}[.

yoz-yOP8y ago

A typo... sadly it's too late to edit the comment.

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