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Can you give us your first impression of the Perl 1 compiler? |
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My first impression would be that what's in Perl 1 is often bogus. It's from the year 1987, and therefore, you must be careful about using it anyhow. Numerical operations can lead to an unexpected error nowadays. Perl 1 isn't written in Perl, contrary to new versions of Perl that are written in Perl. One should know translation methods to understand it better and dig into what YACC does. The code would give a pretty good impression to somebody skilled in Perl programming and compilers. |
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My first impression would be that what's in Perl 1 is often bogus. It's from the year 1987, and therefore, you must be careful about using it anyhow. Numerical operations can lead to an unexpected error nowadays. Perl 1 isn't written in Perl, contrary to new versions of Perl that are written in Perl. One should know translation methods to understand it better and dig into what YACC does. The code would give a pretty good impression to somebody skilled in Perl programming and compilers.