RE: [drifting OT]Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

2001-08-21 Thread Gene Martin
>>Dean Theophilou [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote >>Yes, that's right, but they program in "Kobol". :)) Then how do they keep all those variables that you have to declare in Cobol (you can't just use a variable in a print out, if you want to suppress zeros and stuff like that). I could never keep all

RE: [drifting OT]Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

2001-08-20 Thread Gene Martin
>>>Dean Theophilou Genisar wrote: >>>The only good thing about the nasty little Kobols are that they have >>>only 1-4 hit points (if I remember correctly). :)) That would be Kobolds, which have 1/2 hit die (1-4 hit points), have faces like dogs and bark like them... Gene (who played way too mu

FW: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

2001-08-17 Thread Gene Martin
>Subject: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE Just a note from a VERY NEWBIE; On my new copy of O-Reilly's Programming the Perl DBI, page 3 under the subheading of Perl, it states plainly that "Perl is a very high-level language." I have a hard time convincing my professors in college to take Perl