Re: What is the reason for Perl?

"Tassilo v. Parseval" <tassilo.von.parseval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:406dg9F18ka7gU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Having said the above, I still consider C to be one of the few truely
> perfect languages. It is precisely the lack of certain features that
> makes it so appealing. Naturally, when I need those missing features,
> I'd always chose Perl over C, or any language that has them. But many
> tasks don't require more than its fairly basic set of concepts.

Well said.

--
Eric
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