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From: bruce@idsssd.UUCP (Bruce T. Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: What is perl?
Summary: in addition ...
Message-ID: <745@idsssd.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 14:25:31 GMT
References: <458@memqa.uucp>
Organization: In*sight Distribution Systems, Hunt Valley, MD
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In article <458@memqa.uucp>, qfhca81@memqa.uucp writes:
> 
> Could someone email me a desription of the perl language.  I've never 
> heard of it before bringing up this newsgroup.

Absolutely!  Me too!  What is perl, and why does the world of usenet seem to
be switching over to this language?

I'd love to know, and so would the other programmers here who've never heard
of it.  Is it a BSD-ism?  SUN-ism?  OTHER-ism?

Many thanks.

Bruce Harvey
bruce@idsssd.UUCP
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