[Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial VII (perl tricks)
- From: suraj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suraj Kumar)
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:03:38 +0530
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar <
benignbala at gmail.com> wrote:
He is not demeaning anything. He has an opinion that he is
expressing. You talk like Mr . Kapil Sibal. I use Perl is my job and I
Thanks for that excellent piece of non-ad-hominem attack. :)
have used Python as well. I can tell you from experience that even
well written Perl code is quite difficult to read when compared to a
well written Python code. Please don't hurry to say "Well, then it is
not well written". And to reply to your accusation, this is Randall
Schwartz says in his Learning Perl book.
Agreed. English is the easiest to read. Python is easy. C is very difficult
(or would you prefer C to be placed before Perl?). Assembly is very very
difficult... and so on.
You may love a language, but do jump at some one who points out a few
negatives of what you love.
1. I just ask you to imagine replacing this entire analogy to introducing
GNU/Linux to the uninitiated. Imagine, if someone kept telling you that
GNU/Linux sucks compared to, say, OSX... yet you gotta learn GNU/Linux for
a reason not explained clearly. Now, as a reader, I'd be (and was) highly
confused and become wary of approaching such a thing which is supposedly
sucky and the purpose of learning which I'm not clear.
2. Imagine, being told that writing code in C is not advisable in
comparison to Python because C requires careful memory management. Of
course, it is a true statement (when looked at partially). But an
incorrect, impartial statement.
... and imagine 1 & 2 happening on a public forum.
Hence, I'd asked the OP to "consider" not doing these two above outlined
things.
I owe an apology to whoever that may have interpreted whatever I may have
said knowingly or unknowingly to cause damage to their identity. Let's
please end this thread that has gone beserk.
regards,
-Suraj
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