Perl

Derek D. Martin ddm+gnhlug at pizzashack.org
Tue Aug 20 12:35:06 EDT 2002


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At some point hitherto, bscott at ntisys.com hath spake thusly:
>   I think you put far too much weight on the "recreational hackers" who
> favor neat tricks.  It is one thing to fire off one-liners because one can;  
> it is quite another to do so in "real life".  It is quite possible to write
> professional-quality, well-documented, non-obscure Perl code.

I have already said exactly this!  However, the overwhelming majority
of the Perl code I have seen, including "professionally written" code,
has been reletively hard to make sense of.  Even when it was using
features of Perl that I am familiar with.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying Perl is a bad language, or that
it's useless, or any such thing.  I think it's a great tool.  I am
only echoing Mike O'Donnell's sentiment that Perl is (for me)
exceptionally difficult to learn, as languages go, for all the reasons
I've stated.

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