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Happy Birthday Perl!

Posted by chrisd on from the theres-more-than-one-way-to-blow-out-the-candles dept.

Puppet Master writes: "Just remembered that Perl was created on this day (12/18) in 1987 by Larry Wall..." Check out the Time Line and the discussion on use.perl.org and I'll take this chance as a reminder to donate to the Damian Conway/Dan Sugalski slavery fund.

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  1. Re:I would like to say Happy Birthday by smallpaul · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Seriously - what else can do system admin scripting(on many different systems), database programming, web programming, network programming, and do it all on just about any platform, not to mention virtually everything C, awk, sed and shell scripting can do.

    Python, Tcl, Ruby, Scheme, ...

  2. Why perl is the holy Grail by TeleoMan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it has all the great functional features that can make Lisp programmers happy.
    Because it has a wonderful OO model which can make all OO programmers happy.
    Because it has super fast compilers that can make C and C++ programmers happy.
    Because it is great for imperative programming and for functional programming.
    Because it is great for procedural programming and for OO programming.
    Because it is as multiplatform and portable as Java.
    Because it is designed to please everyone without compromising on anything, and, put more simply, because it can reconciliate the C, Java, Lisp and C++ community.
    Because it can even be used indifferently as a scripting or a system language.
    Because it is great for teaching AND for the real world.
    Because its compilers are libre software and its design and developement are made in a very open fashion.

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    $6.21 is the number of the beast before sales tax. Meh.
  3. Let's get that fund growing! by Marx_Mrvelous · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know abouy you guys, but Perl has become a huge part of my livelyhood. Let's try to all donate at least $5, we've got enough slashdotters that we could really make a huge difference.

    I may be a poor college student, but without Perl, I wouldn't be able to be here at all!

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  4. Love it, hate it, you can't ignore it by Kirruth · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Of Eric Raymond's five hacker languages - that is, Python, Java, C/C++, Perl and LISP - Perl is probably the one which inspires the strongest feelings either way.

    Love it for its ability to get stuff done with no messing, hate it for the way it can really bite you in the ass, Perl is hard to ignore.

    Happy Birthday, ya adorable scuzball camel-type language.

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    "Well, put a stake in my heart and drag me into sunlight."
  5. Re:Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris by dangermouse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's False Laziness. A real lazy programmer documents his code thoroughly, so that he doesn't have to put any effort later into understanding or explaining it.