> > One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that > > I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully > > replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other shell-inspired > > scripting languages like awk managed to avoid.
> Such as? The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially the ad-hoc syntax and complex macro-style variable substitution. I'm not sure but I'd consider even csh more consistent and rational than Perl.
