On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Suraj Kumar <su...@careergear.in> wrote: > > 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. >
Correct. It requires heavy investment like UNIX. I agree. > 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. I dunno why. I never liked Catalyst and I am sure I won't like Moose either. I am just comfortable with plain old perl with the hand. I might be a luddite. Well. > > 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 ;) Well good that i see one comment from you. So I take back my words. Ha ha. >> 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 :) > Sorry. I have become very lazy and I was in a bad mood in the morning. Anyway the # character is the comment character in perl, config files and shell scripts. ;) Thanks again for correcting me and helping the community. Much appreciated. -Girish _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
