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© Stefan Habersack, Fotolia

© Stefan Habersack, Fotolia

Article from Issue 105/2009

 

Beyond Perl

First of all, thank you for a very good magazine. I have been a happy subscriber for a very long time, and I look forward to receiving your magazine every month.

One thing keeps annoying me though: the regular programming column is always in Perl. In all my issues except the first two or three, Perl has been the language in the programming column.

Other than arguing that Perl might not be a programming language per se, having only one language in the column could be perceived as kind of narrow sighted.

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