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

by talexb (Chancellor)
on Mar 09, 2025 at 22:23 UTC ( [id://11164204]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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

I was used to building multi-level data structures in C, but you had to declare everything first, and decide if it was going to be on the stack (with some size limitations), or in the heap (then make sure you free'd everything you'd malloc'd). In Perl? No worries, mate! Just start using the thing you want, and Perl magically makes it spring to life.

The community is pretty awesome too. :)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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