Chris,
I offer my opinions here as a real "grey beard" (literally). I certainly
agree with you that people should have
a breath of skills allowing them to use the right tool at the right time.
However, notwithstanding the fact that the other day I worked out that I
have actually used about 15 different programming languages in anger
(that is, part of code used by other people) I have to admit that my
occasional brush with Perl has been unrewarding (for both me and the
language...)
My biggest problem is that I've never seen a little bit of typing as a
big issue, but reading and trying to understand something a few
weeks/months/years later is always fraught with difficulties. The main
problem with perl is that I can never remember exactly what #...@!$% means
whereas something like getUserPrincipal() works for me!
Regards
Alan Chaney
Christopher Schultz wrote:
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André,
What the hell.. let's start a holy war?!
On 2/13/2009 10:25 AM, André Warnier wrote:
Their merit is all the greater since
they work in the obscure non-graphical background, they never get any of
the attention, and they have to share machines with some Java programs,
which means they get only the usage of a tiny fraction of the RAM and
CPU cycles, although they do most of the real work and have to do it
with a single thread each.
Hear, hear!
Even some of the old-school programmers, mostly in their later years,
succumb to the what-the-heck syndrome and come to appreciate the sense
of security and comfort provided by strongly-typed and rigidly
object-oriented languages
Heck, lots of folks on this list won't even use cron to schedule jobs.
Instead, they write web applications wrapped around Quartz because "it's
just easier to deploy" or some other such nonsense. IMHO, you either
have control of your production environment yourself (and can do
whatever you want) or you have an ops team with complete control of your
production environment (and they ought to be able to handle scary stuff
like scheduling cron jobs and running shell scripts) or you have no
control whatsoever and therefore do not have a production environment.
There, I said it. :p
On the other hand, seeing object-oriented perl really makes me queasy.
- -chris
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