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		ivanhoe on Dec 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Joy of Perl (1998) In those days "real programmers" were doing C and ASM, and they anyway considered all other languages as a joke :P

wbl on Dec 21, 2019 [–]

Kernigan didn't! The number of little languages he made is astounding.

p_l on Dec 21, 2019 | [–]

The "unix way" was full of small languages, sometimes compiled to C.

There's a good reason why parser generators were part of UNIX.

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