Re: What makes Perl Perl?

[David L. Nicol]

David Corbin wrote:

> In addition to the four I posted, originally, I've added two.  Here's my
> working list.
> 
> native pattern matching;
> list manipulation
> aweswome text processing.
> It's application glue  (thanks Tim)
> Ability to write powerful 1-line programs.
> Make easy things easy and hard things possible.  (paraphrased, I
> suspect)
> --
> David Corbin


variables springing into existence without predeclaration
no separate "object code" piece
documentation the reading of which improves command of other programming langs




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