> > Perl suffers from wanting to be any number of things, and by adding
> > extra complexity and indirection to achieve it. It guesses what you
> > want. It has stupid interpolation defaults, but you can't bypass them.
> There's a difference between hating software because it it doesn't make
> s
On 12/12/06 01:23 Daniel Pittman wrote:
> This is simple:
>
> format "~A ~A ~A" a-string an-array a-hash
>
> This is complex:
>
> print "$astring, @anarray, %ahash"
I consider the Perl way of doing things simpler, but that's because I'm used
to it. I don't think either way is more or less
* Abigail [2006-12-12 08:00]:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:59:56AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>> * Peter da Silva [2006-12-12 00:15]:
> One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff
> that I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall
> faithfully replicated in Perl
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:59:56AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Peter da Silva [2006-12-12 00:15]:
> > > > One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff
> > > > that I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall
> > > > faithfully replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other
Robert Rothenberg writes:
> On 11/12/06 23:12 Peter da Silva wrote:
One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that
I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully
replicated in Perl
>>
>>> Such as?
>>
>> The things I mentioned several messages b
> > The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially
> > the ad-hoc syntax and complex macro-style variable
> > substitution.
> I can't see a mention of either in this thread. What do you mean
> by "macro-style"?
Perl's $foo, @bar, %baz, and the umpteen different kinds of quoting, I
On 11/12/06 23:12 Peter da Silva wrote:
>>> One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that
>>> I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully
>>> replicated in Perl
>
>> Such as?
>
> The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially the ad-hoc
> sy
* Peter da Silva [2006-12-12 00:15]:
> > > One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff
> > > that I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall
> > > faithfully replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other
> > > shell-inspired scripting languages like awk managed to
> > > av
> > One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that
> > I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully
> > replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other shell-inspired
> > scripting languages like awk managed to avoid.
> Such as?
The things I mentioned several mes
* Peter da Silva [2006-12-11 16:25]:
> Every time you think about how hateful Bourne shell is, think
> about having to choose between things like JCL and CCP, and
> consider how much hate you've missed out on.
Fair point; it doesn't preclude wanting to do yet better, of
course.
Regards,
--
Aris
* Peter da Silva [2006-12-11 20:45]:
> One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that
> I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully
> replicated in Perl. Including stuff that other shell-inspired
> scripting languages like awk managed to avoid.
Such as?
Regard
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