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Obituary Matt Trout will be missed by many, even though he was a divisive figure who featured several times on The Register.
Trout was a child prodigy and also found his way into the Perl community young – in his own words, "thrust into Perl at the tender age of seventeen by a backup accident". His verdict on the language, from his homepage, spoke to us:
Perl is a wonderful language once you get over the fact that a slightly quirky set of syntax and embedded regular expressions have a tendency to make it look like line noise in the wrong light. Once you're used to it, it's a hell of an expressive dynamically typed language with a huge set of libraries and classes available for it.
Obituary Matt Trout will be missed by many, even though he was a divisive figure who featured several times on The Register.
Trout was a child prodigy and also found his way into the Perl community young – in his own words, "thrust into Perl at the tender age of seventeen by a backup accident". His verdict on the language, from his homepage, spoke to us:
Perl is a wonderful language once you get over the fact that a slightly quirky set of syntax and embedded regular expressions have a tendency to make it look like line noise in the wrong light. Once you're used to it, it's a hell of an expressive dynamically typed language with a huge set of libraries and classes available for it.
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