Re: Regex on OS X
Re: Regex on OS X
- Subject: Re: Regex on OS X
- From: "Michael P. Wilson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:28:10 -0400
As a perlmonk I'm honor-bound to concede this point entirely.
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 11:51 AM, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
No one would dispute this. Perl is a wonderful language for advanced
textual parsing, but I must take issue with the claim that it is "easy
to learn".
Perl is great for the experienced programmer/scripter, but it's
greatest
strengths for them are it's biggest stumbling blocks for new
scripters. The
fact that "there's more than one way to do it" doesn't help someone
trying
to learn "any way to do it" for the first time.
Perl is a lanuage that you "graduate" to. In comparison to the other
popular scripting languages of today, (AppleScript, JavaScript, Python,
PHP, Visual Basic, etc...), Perl stands out as exceptionally difficult
to
initially grasp.
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