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Periodic Table of the Operators
mAsterdam writes "At his code blog Mark Lentcner writes:
"A while back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few months to get around to drawing it..."
You might want to take a look at this and think about which operators are yet to be discovered."
Do you look at C++ and say "OMG so many options, look there are curly brackets and square brackets and cin and cout and vectors and ++ and != operators and so much more I give up! ".
Yes there is a lot to perl if you look at it all expressed in the form linked in the article, but other languages would look similarly complex if laid out like that.
As for my superior posting, it was as it actually contained some content. Look at the other persons reply - they made a good point instead of your backwards whining.
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You don't like perl because it isn't strongly typed is all I can see you saying.apart from your factless "perl is a mess" whine.
Anyway back on topic, are you still scared of operators. you say in your trollish first post to this topic.
Which in particular scares you, '!=' or is it the terrifying '==' or is it containing code within curly braces,>=?. I can help you if you want, * means multiply, / means divide. Square brackets are for arrays.
Do you get the point, most of the operators in that table are familiar to most programmers. (or at least to programmers who are willing to open their eyes and read).
The vast majority of those operators also already exist in perl which since you say " This cannot mean good things for Perl. Look at all of those operators!!!!" can only mean you dont know much or anything about perl currently except you dont like it.
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