[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Kevin Loch]

I don't hat it but I have yet (after 10 years of doing this stuff)
to find an application for it.  My threshold between bash and C
leaves no room for a bloated, unnecessarally complex script environment.
I suspect that many perl scripts should have been written in C 
(think slashdot), or shell scripts (for the simple stuff).  If you
were writing a log analyzer that was doing alot of cut/grep/sort etc
then perl would probably make sense.  Hey isn't that why it was written
in the first place?  I wonder what Larry Wall thinks about Perl being
used for Ecommerce front ends?

KL

Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> I was reading some stuff on ESR's site the other day, and I came across his
> article on Perl vs. Python, and I realized something.
> 
> I absolutely hate Perl.
> 
> The average perl construct of any complexity looks like random line noise
> tied into knots, and is about as easy to follow if you weren't the original
> programmer.
> 
> In my line of work I have to go through other peoples perl constantly, and
> man it is a real son of a bitch. It's gotten to the point that when people
> pitch a job to me I actually specifically  say "I dont want to deal with
> other peoples perl"
> 
> Now don't get me wrong, I like the power and flexibility, but I just think
> they have taken perl way to far. It started out as a relativley simple
> replacement for awk, sed, and sh scripting, and it's still very good at
> that, but people are now writing full applications in perl with GUI's etc...
> 
> 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.
> 
> Chris Byrne
> 
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