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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 07:55:19 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
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> Perl is the first general-purpose programming language I've ever used* which
> hasn't yet made me mad at it because it couldn't do something in a clean and
> straightforward way. It's amazing: I just never get mad at Perl. Instead,
> I'm continually amazed at how easy it is to write clean and efficient code
> in it. If ever I'm stuck and don't know how to do some particular thing,
> it always turns out that it's -my- limitation of simply not knowing it yet,
> rather than Perl's limitation of not being able to do it (or there not being
> some library on CPAN that someone has written for it). In contrast, whenever
> I write C, for example, I'm constantly hating its syntactical and semantic
> limitations, or having to write a function for every stupid little thing that
> the language doesn't handle in a built-in way.
The problem with perl, I am told, is that it's also incredibly easy to
do things exactly the wrong way. In fact, it's vastly easier than to
do it the right way. Just like in any other language, of course, but
in perl, "there is always more than one way to fsck up"
Perl is made by throwing features at a wall and seeing what sticks.
Discuss.
Jasper
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| (...) It's no toy. (...) It's not a good language to teach Computer Science with. BTW, there is arguably never any "right" way. Just different ways to do things that either work correctly or don't work correctly -- or perform correctly but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Amen to that. Perl is the first general-purpose programming language I've ever used* which hasn't yet made me mad at it because it couldn't do something in a clean and straightforward way. It's amazing: I just never get mad at Perl. Instead, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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