a new Perl/Python a day
James Stroud
jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Sun Jan 9 21:50:40 EST 2005
On Sunday 09 January 2005 05:31 pm, Scott Bryce wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > frustrated constantly by its inanities and incompetences.)
>
> I don't see what this has to do with Perl.
On Sunday 09 January 2005 04:28 pm, Matt Garrish wrote:
> What language are you an expert at? It certainly isn't Perl.
Very dry humor indeed!
<python>
bob = [1,2,3,4]
carol = [bob,bob]
# not inane dereferencing
print carol[1][3]
</python>
<perl>
$bob = [1,2,3,4] ;
$carol = [ $bob, $bob ] ;
# inane dereferencing
print "$carol->[1][3]\n" ;
</perl>
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