On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:49 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Reminds me of the *only* O'Reilly book I didn't like: I think it was
>>> Larry's original book on Perl - the index was *dreadful*, couldn't find
>>> anything.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you wrote a perl program following those
>> examples, it would almost certainly still run today, with the only
>> change it might need being to escape @ symbols that you had in
>> double-quoted strings. That's pretty rare.
>
> Well, yes. And I can do the same with my favorite language of all, ANSI C.
Umm, yeah - now. In 1987 when perl was released you'd have been using
K&R C which needed some changes when compilers started demanding the
syntax from the ANSI changes. Or worse, some compiler with it's own
unique syntax.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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