[Ilugc] [TIP] perl beginning
- From: suraj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suraj Kumar)
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:09:16 +0530
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatachalam at 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
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