Appendix . Epilogue
As you’ve learned from this book, Perl is a great language that’s just as happy to let you code quick and dirty one-liners on the fly as it is to provide the more sophisticated tools you need to write more robust applications. Most compiled languages, such as C, C++, Java, Ruby, and Python—or interpreted languages, like AWK and the Unix shells—only support programming on one end of this continuum. Perl covers the full spectrum.
This means you can whip off useful one-liners at lightning speed with the techniques learned in part 1 of this book, or carefully construct larger enterprise-grade applications like those shown in part 2—all with the same language.
What more could you ask for, than
Perl’s elegance of expression
Its unique ...
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