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Do any of the splatters generate a "use strict;" at the beginning?
It would be interesting to reverse-engineer this to figure out which paint splatters reliably produced "use strict;".
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PHP won because it was easy to install and restrict (by memory usage) on shared servers, as well as the fact that writing a PHP script was as simple as renaming an .html file to .php so web designers who wanted some dynamic functionality could use it really easily. As bad as some aspects of PHP were, making it so trivial to install and make available on a server was a brilliant move that lots of languages could still…
The parent nailed it. It's easy to complain about PHP from various standpoints both pragmatic and PL-centric, but it has an amazing superpower which might be summed as "serverless for the web, v0".
Still my favorite language.
It's clearly such an incredible labor of love by Larry Wall et al. that I'm sad for them it isn't more popular. Just a mammoth amount of work by nice, passionate people.
In my world (bioinformatics), it was initially the go-to language. Even today I very occasionally run across something using BioPerl, requiring me to stumble through CPAN again. I get pretty nostalgic thinking about it.
I love this footnote so much: > This feature does enable a neat quine: the Perl program “Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.”, when saved in the appropriate location, outputs “Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.” The reason for this behavior is left as an exercise for the reader.
It's trying to divide "Illegal division by zero at /" by "tmp/quine.pl line 1." and "tmp/quine.pl line 1." evaluates to 0?
Illegal::division(by::zero(at/tmp/quine . pl::line(1.)))Because of the frequency I see undecipherable strings like this in actual Perl code, I don't like Perl the programming language. However, I love Perl the project. Take a look at the config file for Perl and how many systems and architectures it accommodates: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/Configure It's clearly such an incredible labor of love by Larry Wall et al. that I'm sad for them it isn't more popular…
Do any of the splatters generate a "use strict;" at the beginning?
It would be interesting to reverse-engineer this to figure out which paint splatters reliably produced "use strict;".