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brkstf · Apr 11th, 2005, 3:28 PM

i love perl, for some things. here's one of them:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP:

imple;
getstore ($source, $destination);

voila! you snatched a web page in three lines.

also, it's capacity for ugly code is truly astonishing. hence the saying: "well-written perl is indistinguishable from line noise."

for people thinking about getting into a web language, perl is great because it is extremely good at parsing and tweaking text files. the RegExps you can make are very powerful and quick (yet impossible to understand after you've gotten them to work).

i did quite a bit of studying on php, but i was always frustrated by its lack of an equivalent to perl's "print qq" command. i HATE escaping inner and outer quotes.

Apr 11th, 2005, 3:28 PM	#44
brkstf Programmer Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 89 Rep Power: 4	i love perl, for some things. here's one of them: #!/usr/bin/perl use LWP:imple; getstore ($source, $destination); voila! you snatched a web page in three lines. also, it's capacity for ugly code is truly astonishing. hence the saying: "well-written perl is indistinguishable from line noise." for people thinking about getting into a web language, perl is great because it is extremely good at parsing and tweaking text files. the RegExps you can make are very powerful and quick (yet impossible to understand after you've gotten them to work). i did quite a bit of studying on php, but i was always frustrated by its lack of an equivalent to perl's "print qq" command. i HATE escaping inner and outer quotes.