Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:50:51 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:

This is one of the many reasons I like PERL.

Perl completely changed the game with its combination of good regular
expressions, good string handling, and good data structures as well. I
credit Perl with popularizing the whole concept of regular expressions:
before that, they were considered something esoteric.

For example, BASIC was considered to have good string-handling facilities.
But it never had good regular expressions or hash tables; and the coming
of Perl made BASIC look quite old-fashioned indeed.

On the other hand, Perl has a lot of subtleties to it that I never quite
understood. When I started learning Python, I found that was just as
powerful, but so much easier to understand.