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Re: When you first encountered Perl, which feature amazed you the most?

by Anonymous Monk
on Mar 04, 2025 at 19:41 UTC ( [id://11164141]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to When you first encountered Perl, which feature amazed you the most?

I was very naive, and of course hashes, regexes, etc., but I think the moment of amazement during just a few days/scripts was how seamless/effortless it was to mix binary IO/processing with text IO/processing, within adjacent lines, reading the same file. I.e., DWIM, I guess?

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