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Re: What was the bait (project, problem or opportunity) that hooked you on Perl?

by merlyn (Sage)
on Apr 25, 2009 at 05:09 UTC ( [id://759957]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What was the bait (project, problem or opportunity) that hooked you on Perl?

When I could start answering questions in comp.unix.questions in fewer lines of Perl than Shell, and I was a pretty good shell programmer. :)

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

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