-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > I think you put far too much weight on the "recreational hackers" who > favor neat tricks. It is one thing to fire off one-liners because one can; > it is quite another to do so in "real life". It is quite possible to write > professional-quality, well-documented, non-obscure Perl code.
I have already said exactly this! However, the overwhelming majority of the Perl code I have seen, including "professionally written" code, has been reletively hard to make sense of. Even when it was using features of Perl that I am familiar with. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying Perl is a bad language, or that it's useless, or any such thing. I think it's a great tool. I am only echoing Mike O'Donnell's sentiment that Perl is (for me) exceptionally difficult to learn, as languages go, for all the reasons I've stated. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Ym+5djdlQoHP510RAmhCAJ9fAr2dXg3DsiTVbtleWEC6KJuF6wCgrSqs OCthpvyhyUJSTZXiaIZ87Lw= =+U9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
