[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[David Rouse]

On 4/4/01 at 7:04 PM, Greg A. Woods <woods at weird.com> wrote:

>> That said, it still doesn't condemn the language as a whole. 
>
>No, there's not one tiny thing good about Perl.  It was a horrible mess
>in the beginning and the additional bloat is just a foolish attempt to
>fix it after the fact.

But, but ... cross platform text manipulation! I can write a script that
munges html and have the flexibility of running that script on a Unix server
or on a Mac desktop. Indeed Perl probably is the *best* text munger for the
Mac. Of course talk abut bloat; you can save MacPerl scripts as
double-clickable self-contained apps -- MacPerl just packs itself and all
the libraries into the created app. Mmmwahaha!

Okay, I'm not really trying to argue the point -- I'm just saying that you
can come up with an edge case that contradicts *any* "not one tiny thing
good" statement. Hey, there is a reason they call stuff like this 'religious
wars.'

David "looking for a good Irish-Catholic scripting language" Rouse