[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Ken Hansen]

I studied Perl, and to this former COBOL programmer, it was a mess, maybe
even the anti-COBOL (not that thst is neccessarily a bad thing...)

Poorly written Perl code looks like a poorly formatted UUENCODED file, and
cleanly written Perl code with useful valiable names, comments, etc. looks
(to me) like assembler code.

Perl is amazingly powerful, the EMACS of scripting languages, if you will,
but I will always remain a vi devotee (mainly because I only can think of
about 8 - 10 things I want to do with a text file while I am editing it, and
I know all the keyboard shortcuts for those 8 - 10 actions).

Hey, at least I am honest about it... ;^)

Now Java, well, I haven't quite made it over the learning curve, once/if I
do, it looks very nice...

But for now, my simple needs are met with PHP/MySQL/HTML, all hand coded in
vi/vim (depending on the platform).

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cantrell" <david at cantrell.org.uk>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?


> "Devin L. Ganger" <devin at thecabal.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:09:30PM -0700, Chris Byrne wrote:
> >
> > > To my mind, if you need the kind of capability that the really weird
modules
> > > provide you'd be much better off doing the thing in python or Java, or
C.
> >
> > Then you haven't seen the Perl module that lets you write your code in
> > Latin, and it will translate it into Perl?
>
> Or my module which converts your code into ASCII art :-)
>
> Seriously Chris, I think your problem is with crap programmers, not with
> perl itself.  I bet those people would write unmaintainable code in any
> language.
>
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