[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:30:58PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:

> Rubbish.  Whilst perl *permits* bad programming practices (want to write
> BASIC in perl? you can) it doesn't encourage them*.  I think that that
> misconception springs from the fact that it's really easy for a newbie
> to get started with perl - far easier than any other language I've tried,
> except the BASIC that came in ROM on old 8-bit home machines - and that
> newbies write bad code.  Therefore there is lots of bad perl.

How is perl easier to get started in than Python?  Python by itself is
nice, but with an intelligent editor, it can become even more amazingly
easy.  I supose that things could be even easier still if it had a
cookbook of python recipies, like the perl documentation provides a good
bit of.


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Joshua D. Boyd