RE: Perl, the new generation

[David Grove]

> It's not so much that Perl shouldn't have data structures or modules.
> I think what Stephen is saying (and he's not the only one) is that
> the bare minimum amount of Perl you *must* know to be productive
> is increasing.  Either that, or we're giving the impression that
> it's increasing.  Many people don't want to get bogged down in how
> the details of Unicode, upperclass level CS topics or Perl's unique
> syntactical peculiarities to parse a damn log file (or find and
> use a CPAN module that does it).

For me, it's the bare minimum amount of Perl you must *use* to be productive
that I see increasing in our plans and discussions. I'm afraid of Perl
turning into a verbose monstrosity to please verbosity addicts of languages
whose only point of advocacy is Perl FUD. Once quick and dirty dies, Perl
dies.



David T. Grove
Blue Square Group
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