[boulder.pm] Hmm, now this is either the most boring list ever,or
it's broken :)
Rob Nagler
nagler at bivio.biz
Thu Jun 20 23:25:45 CDT 2002
Luke Palmer writes:
> Perl, even if it's just simple stuff, is not easy to parse (you
> need something as complex as Perl to do it), so if you're writing in
> non-Perl (but why?), you're screwed (I'm even getting irritated by all
> this stuff (parenthetical expressions, that is (sorry (this is
> starting to look like Scheme :)))).
Fortunately a guy named Larry wrote this cool interpreter for Perl. ;-)
The reason I like Perl as a data format is that I can just "eval" or
"do" it. It's literally a one-liner.
Rob
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