[sf-perl] What language is most like perl?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Aug 16 11:19:27 PDT 2012


>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Moyer <fred at redhotpenguin.com> writes:

Fred> Syntactically, PHP is very close to Perl. It is basically Perl without
Fred> strictures, warnings, hashes, and lexical variable declarations. And
Fred> CPAN.

"How do you write PHP so well?"
"I think of Perl, and I take away reason and accountability."

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119822/quotes?qt=qt0361412)

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