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Even the Perl man pages are one of the best programming language introductions and documentations, or at least were at the time.


Even the Perl error messages are great. I've worked in Python and C# since my years with Perl, and neither has error messages worth a damn compared to Perl's. Perl tries to tell you where you went wrong. The others just tell you what's wrong with them. It's ridiculous that it's the 2020s and learning a language still involves learning a compiler's error messages.




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