yes, you can use PERL to program Games. No it's not the best thing to
use for doing so, and after reading the documentation, I think the
exerpt below explains alot to the issue of what perl is and what its
capabilities are. In my humble opnion knowing what i know of OO programs
and C and sh and KSH and sed and awk and pascal and c++ and java and
PERL and html and basic and .... yes virginia there is an end to this
statement, PERL is an Object oriented programing language. I also agree,
that though Perl can be used in a Object Oriented fashion, not using it
as such does not negate the functionality of the programing language. As
you can see from my exerpt of the documentation, the Author does not
call it an Object Oriented Programing language. Do we care? no. *smile*
Can we use it as OO? yes.
to clear up some mysteries here is an exerpt from the perl
documentation. found at this location
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perl.html
*begin Exerpt**
.......Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files,
extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based
on
that information. It's also a good language for many system
management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use,
efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal).
Perl combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best
features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those
languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language
historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even
BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds closely to C expression
syntax. Unlike most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit
the size of your data--if you've got the memory, Perl can slurp in
your whole file as a single string. Recursion is of unlimited depth. And
the tables used by hashes (sometimes called "associative arrays")
grow as necessary to prevent degraded performance. Perl can use
sophisticated pattern matching techniques to scan large amounts of
data quickly. Although optimized for scanning text, Perl can also
deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like hashes.
Setuid Perl scripts are safer than C programs through a dataflow
tracing mechanism that prevents many stupid security holes.
If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh,
but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster, and you
don't want to write the silly thing in C, then Perl may be for you.
There are also translators to turn your sed and awk scripts into Perl
scripts. ........
**end excerpt**
also for those that feel PERL cannot be Object Orientated, then I
redirect you to this page where you will find a tutorial on how to do OO
within perl..
So those that DON'T know Larry Wall and Damien Conway (like myself) can
understand.. So based on these refrences Yes PERL can be Object
Oriented. And calling it Object oriented is not an overstatement.
URL to Obeject Oriented Perl TUTORIAL
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlboot.html
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