On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large > PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's IMHO the worst > programming language ever invented. Totally non-intuitive.
I completely disagree. It's a very powerful language, allowing you to express things in very concise ways. In every language, you may find unintuitive things (though that may be a bit subjective). For instance, in C, a subtraction on integers may not give the same result as the mathematical one (even when there is no overflow). In python, you have this silly indentation rules. And so on. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111224173443.ge5...@xvii.vinc17.org
