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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 May 2008 08:57, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Sam Clemens wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > It's worth taking a look at, if only for familiarization.
> > But don't try to do a "monster" program with it.
> > 10000 lines of shell-script is more maintainable than
> > 100 lines of perl.
>
> Well,
>
>       My purpose for looking at perl was I wanted a more robust bash. I
> wanted something that had better file handling, data structures, loop
> and conditional expression support, regexp support, floating point,
> etc.. Just something that would allow me to do in 20-30 lines of code
> all (or at least 99%) the administrative stuff I need to do, but
> where I have run into limitations in bash.
>
>       If I was ever going to do a big project, it would be in c/c++,
> (heaven forbid Fortran) something I already know. I thought perl
> would be a step up in scripting language from bash. Is that the wrong
> move? Would something else give me all perl's functionality in a
> better script language? I was really looking forward to the CPAN
> resource.
>
>       You guys let me know what you think. Thanks.

If you're already engaged with Perl, just stick with it. If you're a 
programming professional or want to be, you'll need to work with lots 
of languages and understand them and their strengths and limitations at 
a deeper level than someone who just wants to get some day-to-day, 
one-off tasks done and won't need to, e.g., support other people using 
or maintaining your code. Either way, having some experience with Perl 
won't be a bad thing.


> --
> David C. Rankin


Randall Schulz
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