Re: awk question
Re: awk question
- Subject: Re: awk question
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:36:39 -0600
- Thread-topic: awk question
On 12/14/06 09:15, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> *sigh*. So tired of this attitude toward Perl. The argument doesn't
> belong on this list, so I won't bother rebutting in detail. I do
> submit that Perl, like Javascript, is a victim of its own success in
> the early web days, in which it was taken up by zillions of would-be
> programmers who had no prior experience, and who then generated bad
> examples which others learned from. If you look at Perl code produced
> by good programmers (plenty of examples on CPAN), you will find
> well-structured, well-documented, quite legible code.
Mark, relax. Didn't say perl was useless, or that people who like perl are
bad people. I said I don't like, because I don't like the syntax or the
structre, and my experience has been that perl code and documentation don't
live well together.
>
> In particular, it is a fallacy to equate expressiveness with
> obfuscation, and I certainly don't see anything in my snippet above -
> a one-off, incidentally, which should not be held up as an example of
> good programming practice in the first place - that is any worse than,
> say, the awk equivalent. The least legible part is the regular
> expression, whose syntax you certainly can't blame on Perl.
Nor was I talking about your code. You made a comment about not
understanding why I dislike Perl. I explained why. You can choose to
disagree, however, said disagreement will not change my opinion that Perl is
designed to keep beginners far away.
--
"I have challenged the entire quality assurance team to a Bat-Leth contest.
They will not concern us again."
- 5th most commonly uttered Klingon programmer phrase
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