Comments | sfllaw: I ♥ Perl

sfllaw

I ♥ Perl

Mar 15, 2006 15:59

People who know me know that Perl is my favourite programming language ever.

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geeky, programming, p.d.o, niti

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sailorfrag March 15 2006, 21:39:50 UTC

I think my brain just exploded.

Things like this make me question the legitimacy of me placing perl on my resume. I can usually follow non-line-noise scripts, at least. :-)

sfllaw March 15 2006, 21:41:41 UTC

It's really simple to understand! Honest.

I didn't even do anything nasty: no strange whitespace, no non-standard side-effects, no deprecated features. Just step through the code and you'll see how it does what it does.

jenunderscore_ March 15 2006, 21:41:23 UTC

I'm assuming your just wrote Hello Word ;)

Personally, I'm a PHP <3er

sfllaw March 15 2006, 21:42:48 UTC

I did!

I've never written serious PHP. But I suppose I should learn one day.

jenunderscore_ March 15 2006, 21:51:48 UTC

It's easy as pie.

It's my opinion that once you've worked with it for a while, you won't want to go back. Though I'm sure perl has it's advantages. I'm so deep in the world of PHP that I haven't been keeping up with the updates to Perl.

sfllaw March 16 2006, 03:10:38 UTC

The current Perl has been on a design hiatus since 2002, when Perl 6 was first announced. So you really haven't missed much.

Perl 6 looks really sexy, but we've been waiting years for it now...

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sfllaw March 16 2006, 02:43:06 UTC

Ha ha! That's exactly what it is.

anonymous March 15 2006, 23:16:47 UTC

Urgh :P "perl is great because"... followed by an example of it's worst points, imho. Actually that's great... if job security is what you're looking for.

sfllaw March 16 2006, 01:31:56 UTC

I believe the word you are looking for is "irony".

mricon March 16 2006, 01:57:29 UTC

People like you is why I have learned Python. :)

sfllaw March 16 2006, 02:42:06 UTC

Come now! Python is full of golfing goodness.