Whose functions are realer (was: Migrating to perl?)

[Steve Holden]

D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
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> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:30:28AM -0600, Cameron Laird wrote:
> | Yes, I can imagine there are historical reasons Perlites backtick
> | rather freely.
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> I can't say for sure, but this feature probably came from bash.  In
> bash using a backtick means to execute the command and put its stdout
> here.
>
> -D
>
This usage is much older than bash: it was a feature of the Unix 5th edition
version of the Bourne shell, IIRC.  But you are correct that Perl took the
syntax from Unix shell usage: it's just that bash is a relative newcomer to
the scene :-)

regards
 Steve

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