On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Mac Newbold wrote:
> Amen. After I learned perl, I did nearly all (if not all) of my homework
> assignments in perl rather than C++ or whatever else they were
> "recommending", always with the teacher's permission, of course. My profs
> didn't care, but made it clear since they and the TA didn't know perl,
> they wouldn't be able to give much partial credit if it didn't work
> completely right. But that never came into play, fortunately. :)
[...]
For CS465, the longest entries for the first lab were in Java and C# and were
around 250 lines. We got it down to 4 lines of Perl.
The new scripting languages (Perl, Python, Ruby) are *amazing* for
prototyping, which is basically what CS labs are. Run once, don't worry about
maintainability.
Highly recommended.
-J
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