MooseGuy529's Journal: Why Perl ROCKS!

Perl is the freakin' GREATEST LANGUAGE EVER!

Perl is awesome!!!!! (sorry) It's just great. Here's why...

• Built in hashes--this makes programming ten times easier!
• Built in regexps--okay, it's not the only language with these, but they make stuff so much easier, especially processing email messages to find commands.
• everyone's written everything already--a trip over to CPAN will find a module for any low- or medium-level interface to other stuff you need, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel
• super-"flexible" syntax--okay, this one drives me nuts sometimes, but perl has many cool syntax features like

  while (<>) { print; }

  and various permutations of that kind of thing.

• everything returns something--tons of functions (like substituting with regexps) return true or false depending whether they worked, rather than forcing the user to check some other way to find out if it worked.
• I dunno, the syntax just flows off your fingers, and it keeps the keycaps on the number row from getting jealous!

obey the camel

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[MooseGuy529]

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