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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Extension/Scripting language comparisons
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 21:19:20 GMT
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In article <3tkdc2$4jv@tesla.ee.rochester.edu>,
Chak Tan <tan@tesla.ee.rochester.edu> wrote:
: I think Perl has scalars, arrays of scalars, and associative arrays of
: scalars where scalars can be a string, a number, and a reference which
: are internally represented in a efficient manner (i.e. not as strings).

This is correct.  Perl also has closures, though not continuations.

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
