On Saturday, August 3, 2002, at 06:52  AM, drieux wrote:

>
> On Saturday, August 3, 2002, at 08:43 , David Farnum wrote:
> [..]
>>  I am learning Object oriented programming and perl Tk right now. I hope 
>> to move on to regular expretions soon. Well that is it just wanted to 
>> say I would rather use perl then any other language any day
> [..]
>
> I fear that you have encountered perl's deceptively
> simple approach - and that it has lulled you into
> a false sense of security.
>
> Perl is EVIL! It has big sharped fanged teeth!
>
> What starts out as a simple script will evolve
> into a code line unless you prevent it! Oh sure
> first its a few simple scripts, then it's
> collecting the common functions into a perl
> library to simply 'require' them in - then its
> that silly solution about using a library like
> approach for caching configuration data - eg:
> fixed valued variables - then it's perl modules,
> sub_classing....
>
> RUN AWAY WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!
>
> ciao
> drieux
>

too late. he's addicted. should be a warning label -- Perl IS addictive...

pob


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