On Thursday 01 May 2008 07:43, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008 00:36, Sam Clemens wrote:
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I gave up on perl. It makes my brain hurt -- like trying to read 1970's era BASIC code.
I concur. Perl verges on being an abomination. "Pathetically eclectic rubbish lister" indeed!
I once (in the Perl 4 era) wrote a code generation tool in Perl, but I no longer can even read that stuff.
If you're going to start programming things that go beyond what works well in BASH, you'd be better off with Python or Ruby or even Groovy.
Randall Schulz
That's real, real bad news Randall, I'm already 60% through perl. Bummer. Python huh? I'll look at it. I presume it handles floating point, and has the capabilities of perl? (oh no, here we go again...)
Well, I'm probably overstating it. Perl is immensely practical, but it's offensive from a programming language theory standpoint and from a programming-in-the-large perspective it will lead you down the garden path to impenetrable and unmaintainable spaghetti code. But for for simple programming tasks that go beyond what's comfortable in the shells, I suppose it's OK. It also has lots of libraries and the whole CPAN mechanism is nice.
-- David C. Rankin
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