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You may well think that all you do is program in Perl. All day, every day. This is almost certainly not the case. Mini-languages abound everywhere. Here's just a few that you may use all the time without thinking about it.
And that's just the core language. If we extend the list to include popular uses and modules:
And probably gobs and gobs more. Any given peice of perfectly valid and clean Perl code could easily contain four or five mini-languages without anyone realizing it. I find this interesting, as I hear from many managers that your orginization should stick to using just a few languages. They probably mean full-fledged languages, but I still find this view a bit naive. One of the reasons I'm excited about Parrot (more than Perl6) is to use it to make all sorts of mini-languages that can be more easily embedded into a main language, or have them call routines built from other languages. "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni. In reply to How Many Languages are in Your .pl? by hardburn
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