[Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial VII (perl tricks)
- From: benignbala@xxxxxxxxx (Balachandran Sivakumar)
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:16:31 +0530
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Suraj Kumar <suraj at careergear.in> wrote:
I'd once again request you to stop demeaning the stuff you're trying to
teach (or thrust your impartial views onto a public forum like this). Why
would anyone want to learn something that is, according to your narrow
understanding, is worthless?
He is not demeaning anything. He has an opinion that he is
expressing. You talk like Mr . Kapil Sibal. I use Perl is my job and I
have used Python as well. I can tell you from experience that even
well written Perl code is quite difficult to read when compared to a
well written Python code. Please don't hurry to say "Well, then it is
not well written". And to reply to your accusation, this is Randall
Schwartz says in his Learning Perl book.
"Perl is good for quick-and-dirty programs that you can whip up in
three minutes".
Now, did Girish say something different ?
And the same book also says, "Perl is kind of ugly, This is true.".
You may love a language, but do jump at some one who points out a few
negatives of what you love.
An illiterate will (almost always) write horrible poetry. This is a highly
subjective (and highly inflammable ;) ) bait. Perhaps you're judging perl
by your (or your peers') inability to write elegant code? A sword, to a
Samurai, is more elegant than a pistol.
You are getting into personal attacks which is a very bad trait.
When a language has a variable like "$|" and people use such stuff
frequently, I wouldn't call that language elegant. Another thing is,
you always seem to have the opinion that anyone who tells something
negative about Perl is an "illiterate" or doesn't know how to write
Perl. That is not the case. When it comes to readability, I find
Python to be much much easier then Perl or C. C is a language that I
like very much. But when someone says Python is more readable and
looks more elegant, I would most certainly agree.
For that matter, why were you not forced to learn even perl deeply?
Another personal attack ? Can't people attack the points
mentioned without attacking the person. Thanks
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Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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