Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:44:50AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I've been using Perl for a number of years with programs that store
> data in flat files. Usually using a combination of likely-to-be-unique
> record delimiters (usually :&:) and repeated calls to split(). To find
> a language that automatically does it for you before you ever even get
> to the 'real' code is really fascinating.
Hey, Perl has autosplit mode; see perlrun(1) ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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