[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Simeon Johnston]

Seems like it would be a great language for quick and dirty scripting. : )
You can use whatever dielect they feel most confortable with.  I can see how it
would be easier for some people to script like this.  It seems this would be a
real pain if there were more than one person coding a script though.  Everyone
using there favorite dialect and that different than everyone elses.
The whole living language sounds like it would be great for you own personal
scripts and stuff but to make full blown applications and GUI's from this seems
kinda silly.

sim

Another $0.02 from me.  Don't worry I'm almost out of money. :-)

jeff borisch wrote:

> Simeon Johnston wrote:
>
> > 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 saw Larry Wall speak in Cincinnati several weeks ago and likes to think of
> perl as a real living language. At least that is my interpretation. He likes
> that there is more than one way to do it. He has spent much time studying
> linguistics and Japanese in particular.
>
> Theoretically his idea of dialects is an interesting one. There are many
> ways to say things in English, each with their own nuance; however, the
> parser and interpreter do not learn, or make inferences of meaning like a
> human does. Nor do they have a sense of humor. (-:
>
> --jeff
>
> Larry does seem to be a really nice guy, and fun to listen to.
>
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