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0 pointsmistrial93y ago0 comments

yes and, one of Perl's design goals was literally "report generation" .. which it turns out, might be in HTML format

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It can't do reports. It's a rubbish lister.

It's also clearly not an anagram of REPL. I wonder if anyone ever figured out how to write REPL with a keyboard. I'd like to learn it some day.

(REPL was written in a crazy character set and relied on custom printed punch cards. I think it was the perl of its day.)

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0 pointsmistrial93y ago0 comments

yes and, one of Perl's design goals was literally "report generation" .. which it turns out, might be in HTML format

It can't do reports. It's a rubbish lister.

It's also clearly not an anagram of REPL. I wonder if anyone ever figured out how to write REPL with a keyboard. I'd like to learn it some day.

(REPL was written in a crazy character set and relied on custom printed punch cards. I think it was the perl of its day.)

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