Moving files

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, at 1:45pm, mod+gnhlug at std.com wrote:
> ... some languages are (can be) gobbledegookier than others and (for some
> of us, at least) Perl sure does seem to make you have to gobble WAY more
> gook than anyone should have to...

  People use that argument against C, /bin/sh, Unix, MS-Windows, and
computers in general, too.  It is not so much that it is false, but that it
is a straw-man argument.  Complex systems (which computers, and any subset
thereof, are) require education and study before one can understand them.

  Come to think of it, people use that argument against English, too.

  Could you strip things out of Perl to make it less complex?  Of course you
could.  But then those things wouldn't be in Perl anymore.

  Does Perl have more features than any *one* person needs?  I would say
yes, it does.  But Perl is explicitly trying to be many things to many
people.  See complexity, above.

  If you want Python, you know where to find it.  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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