> https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=614089 posted February 1988 > Perl Kit, Version 1.0, Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall
Excuse my Roff,[1] but holy f\*(&#g shit. Is this where it all started? Did one of my favourite programming languages begin with this very newsgroup post? D—amn. Thanks for sharing! > You might consider, as an initial step, just not bothering with stdio. You're right, actually. System calls should be enough. I'm too used to relying on C's standard library, heh. > Much of my programming career has been a repeated series of lessons in > decomposing problems into almost ridiculously small components. You'd love PostScript then, because once you grok it, it feels like learning to code for the first time all over again. It forces you to approach problem-solving and programming differently, because the solutions you're normally used to writing in C-based languages are often dead weight in PostScript. I'd love to babble about PostScript further, but I've already derailed this thread far enough, so… end of diatribe. [1] .ds &# uckin On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 03:25, Rich Salz <rich.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=614089 posted February 1988 > > Perl Kit, Version 1.0, Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall > > >