On Thursday 01 May 2008 08:57, David C. Rankin wrote:
Sam Clemens wrote:
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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
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