On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is this is the reason people in India prefer Python over perl? I dunno. > Not just India, world over, perl is not as widely used as, say, Java or Python because perl, for writing anything significant, requires mastery over the language's internals. Without experience and/or careful thought, one can completely ruin or make one's code horribly difficult to maintain if they don't know what they're doing with perl. But that is fast changing - with Moose (and other emergent frameworks built on top of Moose (like Catalyst MVC framework)), perl is now an extremely fast paced environment. At least in LUG, the perl knowledge seems woefully poor. > Perhaps because no such survey (we know of) has been conducted in ILUGC to conclude whether the knowledge is there or not ;) > > Unlike shell scripts and makefile variables, perl always requires a > variable to be prefixed with one of > $, @ or # before it. > "%" is used to prefix hash variables, not "#". But I can totally understand how that freudian slip happened :) Cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
