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Perl, the first postmodern computer language (wall.org)
7 points by mark-t on Feb 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Incidentially, I'm reading John Gardner's "Grendel" right now, which my English teacher calls postmodern. Mostly it consists of Grendel ranting about how humanity enrages him and that's why he kills dozens of people. Similar to Perl, when you think about it...


Great article! it is not really about perl and it is a great read around here where there seems to be the idea that lisp (or ruby or python) is the only way.


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