Humor: The Evolution of a Programmer

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:21:02 EST
"Price, Erik" said:


>The two things I like best about Python are its ease of use in OO 
>design and implementation (this is one place where I wouldn't go 
>near Perl) and its interactive interpreter.  It is just as you say, 
>a great way to shave time off development, since you can literally 
>interact with your program in realtime.

While I agree that Perl's OO features were an afterthought and 
therefore, probably not as clean as they [c,sh]ould be, it does have 
a fantastic debugger which sounds the same as Python's interactive 
interpreter.  I don't know much about Python, but I assume the 
'interactive' feature allows you to set break points, watch variables 
and arrays, etc.?

The thing I really like about perl is it's ease of use on the command 
line.  I can easily do things like:

	perl -de 'print;'

and then have the entire feature set of the interpreter at my 
disposal.  I often use this to test code snippets I'm not completely 
sure about before attempting to debug a larger program.

A great feature, as you said, for cutting down on prototyping and 
development time!

>I really like it, I just wish there was a truly portable graphics 
>library (as in, "installed by default on all systems").  I have 
>been meaning to try out Jython, for that matter....

This is one of the things that's nice about perl, there are 
interfaces to Tk, gtk, etc. that have all been ported.
I haven't used them, but I know they exist.
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Paul
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