Re: On Parsing Perl

[gaggio]

I don't know if I am with you there. What is the Perl executable doing when it executes a script? Isn't that called parsing also?

[merlyn]

That's why I said "the only thing that can parse Perl is perl"!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[Anonymous Monk]

Stunning reading comprehension there. I wonder if such clueless folk ever come back and read their comments years later and feel a twinge of embarrassment.