[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Chris Byrne]

I think my main problem with perl is the bloat. It has grown and extended
far beyond what it's original goals were. Normally this isn't a bad thing,
but that growth has been very convoluted and , from my perspective, poorly
managed.

That said, it still doesn't condemn the language as a whole. It just
encourages uses for which it is entirely unsuited, such as writing an entire
multi-thousand line application with another entire multi-thousand line GUI.
These could generally be much more efficiiently programmed in C or Java.

One good thing it has done is gotten a lot of people into coding. Of course
the flip side of that is, as several people have mentioned, the tendency for
those same people to want to do everything in perl.

Perl is and always will be at it's heart a regular experession based, string
oriented scripting language, and any attempt to use it for something else is
probably inefficient at best, and nightmarish at worst.

Chris Byrne
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Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 04:37
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Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?


"Devin L. Ganger" <devin at thecabal.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:09:30PM -0700, Chris Byrne wrote:
>
> > To my mind, if you need the kind of capability that the really weird
modules
> > provide you'd be much better off doing the thing in python or Java, or
C.
>
> Then you haven't seen the Perl module that lets you write your code in
> Latin, and it will translate it into Perl?

Or my module which converts your code into ASCII art :-)

Seriously Chris, I think your problem is with crap programmers, not with
perl itself.  I bet those people would write unmaintainable code in any
language.

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