G T Smith wrote:
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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
How legible a bit of code is really down to the programmer not the language the code is written in.
Obviously you've never seen APL.
There are people that tend to think that abstracting a language to a level closer to pseudo code improves the coding experience, IMHO all that tends to do is reduce the scope of the programmer to control and tune the code.
Personally I have a pathological dislike of languages which use indentation to define blocks and use eol as a statement terminator. Which is the reason I have never bothered too much with Python, but that is a personal preference not a comment on the language itself. PHP is not just a web site language and has been used a non-web application script language, and javascript can also be used this way. (Though I have not done this on a *NIX platform).
Ruby ... you are having a laugh I hope... performs like a dog according to the bench marks... a bit of Web 2 nonsense.. Groovy.. is it even a standard??
In the OP's case, I don't think performance is a big issue, or he wouldn't be using Perl in the first place. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org