I have read through all of the messages on this subject, very interesting.
I am new to perl and at the University that I went to they used C++ as the
base for teaching programming. I thought that I would put in my 2 cents
worth as a different perspective.
I think that C++ gave me alot of grounding to 'think like a programmer'.
I learnt how to think around problems logically. I also think that all
languages encourage this sort of thought process, and IMHO that is one of
the most important things to learn.
I would have to agree that Perl making certain things easier for beginners
should be called progress.
I have learnt Perl from home, with no other resources except the Internet
(some of you who have answered my questions might have noticed this!!,
sorry, Im a poor student, no money for books, and local librarys in my part
of the world dont seem to support the local programmers much) and the one
trap that I find myself falling into is creating messy code, but as Jenda
said, make us beginners go back and change our code every now and then and
we will soon learn.
Perl seems to be one of the more readable and sensible languages that I
have used,
Anywho, just thought I would have my say :)
Chris.
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From: "Dave Benware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Beginners perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!
>
> > There are a few Perl tutors around who might have a different
> > perspective, but from my point of view, turn on strictures and warnings,
> > exercise a little self control and Perl can allow you to produce clear,
> > concise, extensible and maintainable code. What more could a beginner
> > want?
>
> I think Jenda mentioned something about "readability" as you do with
> "clear". What I find interesting about that is that folks that have
> been coding Perl for some years take so many shortcuts in their code
> that it's difficult for a beginner, (or as least for this beginner),
> to understand.
>
> By shortcuts, I mean not using the $_ or ommitting the binding
> operator for a regex. That sort of thing confuses me because it
> looks so different from what I study in my books.
>
> I understand *why* they do it and I'm sure they feel that the newbies
> should just "catch up", but...oh well...
>
> Bompa's 3 cents
>
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