[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Simeon Johnston]

    I wasn't going to get on this subject but I couldn't resist when it hit
the mac. : )
    I use a mac at work and at home ( among other machines ).  I love these
things.  I also love applescript and have done some scripts for basic
everyday tasks ( like rearanging my desktop ).  I was going to learn more but
my job pointed me toward Linux and all the learning that entails.  I have
grown very fond of linux but would never trade it in for a good ( G4 or
better ) mac running OSX.
    I would love to use applescript on for different platforms ( especially
windows.  would be great for windows scripting ).  Maybe it will be more
portable when OSX comes out.  : )

    To stay on topic, I have looked at some perl scripts and found them to be
completely confusing.  I have started learning ( again ) some C/C++ and have
done some scripts in bash as well.  They were all pretty simple and straight
forward.  Perl seems to be a language that changes itself to suit whoever
uses it and in so doing makes it impossible for anyone else to debug or
understand what it is trying to do.
    I am not a programmer ( yet ) and this is just my first impression.  I
mostly got this impression from what I read from the previous link about Perl
6.  Just seems like a huge mess.

sim

Just my personal uneducated opinion.  :-)

David Rouse wrote:

> On 4/4/01 at 10:54 PM, Greg A. Woods <woods at weird.com> wrote:
>
> >There must be several awk and sed implementations for MacOS by now.
>
> I've never seen any, O'R just says they are being implemented.
>
> >Don't you like applescript better anyway?  :-)
> >
>
> Well, yeah. I will script BBEdit (which has good regex stuff) before using
> Perl. And as all MacPerl dudes *hate* AppleScript, I must not be much of a
> MacPerler...
>
> >(Or Dylan?  Oh, never mind, if you knew Dylan you'd probably already be
> >using Squeak anyway....   :-)
>
> Back in the day I tried NewtonScript, which apparently takes quite a bit
> from stuff like Smalltalk and Squeak. I was able to get it to work for me,
> but I guess I'm a very procedural guy -- again, not that I'm a real
> programmer, I just do some small stuff to help people get stuff done.
>
> --
> drouse
>
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