Humor: The Evolution of a Programmer

[Kevin D. Clark]

"Price, Erik" <eprice at ptc.com> writes:

> BUT ... in defense of Perl, which I use very often ... if I really
> need a one-liner, it is my first choice.  I don't think Python
> even has a "-e" equivalent, though it might.  I wouldn't use it
> if it did, because it's too verbose and depends on line endings
> for delimiting blocks of code.

Personally I prefer {}'s to delimit code blocks.

>  Perl is really the master of quick
> one-line utilities.  (Although I've been frustrated lately on this
> Solaris box at work because it doesn't line wrap as nicely as does
> Linux, at least in my experience... I end up overwriting the prev
> line sometimes.)

Please be more specific:  what program is causing this?

I can't see how Perl is the source of this problem.

--kevin
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