J
Jean-Baptiste Mazon
Hi,
The perl manpage mentions the following:
Perl combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the
best features of C, *sed*, *awk*, and *sh*, so people familiar
with those languages should have little difficulty with it.
(Language historians will also note some vestiges of *csh*,
Pascal, and even BASIC-PLUS.)
I could easily find a few examples of Perl features common with C,
sed, awk and sh. With a little additional research, I could find
similarities with csh and BASIC-PLUS, too.
I'm stuck about Pascal.
What vestige did the author have in mind?
The perl manpage mentions the following:
Perl combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the
best features of C, *sed*, *awk*, and *sh*, so people familiar
with those languages should have little difficulty with it.
(Language historians will also note some vestiges of *csh*,
Pascal, and even BASIC-PLUS.)
I could easily find a few examples of Perl features common with C,
sed, awk and sh. With a little additional research, I could find
similarities with csh and BASIC-PLUS, too.
I'm stuck about Pascal.
What vestige did the author have in mind?