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

by Jenda (Abbot)
on Mar 05, 2025 at 20:15 UTC ( [id://11164168]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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

It would be interesting to see historical data for this question. To see how the percentages of different answers changed over the decades.

I bet the "automatic memory management" used to a much bigger thing back in the day.

Jenda
1984 was supposed to be a warning,
not a manual!

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