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Cc: Jon Acierto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
>
> This thread is quite curious to me. Perl in most respects is a *higher*
level
> language than C or C++. It is certainly higher level than Cobol. Perl
has a
> lot of built in operators and functions that make life extremely simple
for
> doing text manipulation. I have written code in both Perl and C and some
C++.
> I find I can code most algorithms faster in Perl. The code may not run as
> fast, but for most tasks that is a non-issue.
Not to mention the pointer managament you have to do to enlarge arrays in
C++.
Especially when you have more than one pointer pointing to a array (or a
string or whatever).
Cobol is a bad example. Never seen someone do OO things in Cobol.
And a programming language doesnt have to be compiled to be taken seriously.
Microsoft will be using JIT compiling in .NET too.
> Perl does have a much simpler data structure model than either C or C++.
For
> example there really is no such thing as a "struct" type in Perl. But
with
> references and hashes, you can easily simulate such structures.
It has a more simple typing. But with the basic building blocks you can
create
the most advanced data structures, easy refer to elements withing them and
even easier iterate over them.
As said before, that doesnt mean you are a good programmer if you used perl
for 2 years.
You can write a lot of bad code in 2 years and i have seen quite some on
this list.
I think there should be a sort of written test to assess programmers.
Find out how they think about programming and paradigms.
An educational institute that just looks at a certain implementation of a
certain program
has a poor assesment method.
Maarten.
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