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> To sum up, I'd recommend Python as a great language for learning OO
> programming and Perl for those programmers who want to have the
> freedom to be constructive, creative and innovative.
While I do like perl a lot, I have found it's quirks to be too irritating
most of the time when maintaining code written by others. It is great for
writing quick scripts and even big apps, if you follow a coding standard.
But unlike with most languages (C included), perl scripts/progams seem to
have as many types of coding methods as there are programmers. For any
programming project where there is a team, I strictly don't use perl. For
team projects Java, Python, C++ or C are better. Enforcing a proper coding
standard on a team project using perl to me seems to defeat the whole
purpose of using it. Which to me is to get things done fast and with minimal
problems. Of course for certain applications like text processing, perl is a
very good option. For those kinds of situations enforcing a strict coding
standard on a team gets you great results.
C and perl can both get messy, but perl always seems to ask for obfuscated
code!
Ambar
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