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		smhenderson on Jan 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The “No Code” Delusion Indeed. When I was finally exposed to Unix (SCO, yuck!) and Linux (Slackware, yay!) it was because I was trying to learn C and wanted free tools because I couldn't afford any commercial stuff at the time. But before I did much with C I became quite proficient with Perl. This really wasn't that long after absorbing all the VB material I could find at the time so it was interesting going from the one to the other, not to mention the OS differences. I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point. VB? Not so much! :-)

JadeNB on Jan 14, 2020 | [–]

> I still love using Perl 5 today even though it's totally out of style at this point.

Same here!

smhenderson on Jan 14, 2020 | | [–]

I suspect there's more of us than we think!

emilper on Jan 15, 2020 | [–]

:) how is Perl out of style ? ... 20 years ago it had features the more enterpricey languages only got in the last few years

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