Hello Guys It's me again,
After getting all the feedback from this maillist on my "High Level"
question AND going to an online dictionary and finding out that Perl Does
fit the definition of a high level language, I get this from the Admissions
Councellor at the U.W. ext.:
Jon, thank you for your inquiry.
I sent your description of your programming background to the C++
application reviewer and received this input:
"i have to agree with will's assessment. perl is not a high level
language. it amounts to a scripting language. simply having 2 years of
working with perl says nothing about whether he has worked on more complex
problems or has developed the programming skills necessary to understand
and solve such problems from ground up. in addition, does he have - in any
language - the understanding of more advanced data structures...with 2
years of serious cobol for example should bring familiarity with files,
records, and other such data types."
Jon, if you have the prerequisite background as described above, then you
will need to document and support it in your C++ application. Otherwise,
you will need to decide how you want to expand your programming experience.
In the UWEO program offerings, the C program would help you do this.
Can someone please help me explain to these people that writing Perl for 2
years says about as much of my ability to program and understand "advanced
data structures" and having worked on "more complex problems" as spending
those 2 years with C. Am I wrong? I know that if I describe to them the
OOP in Perl that I've done as well as all the work I've done with files and
records with data extraction (binary and ascii) that they would
understand. But is it just me or do these people not know anything about Perl?
Jonathan Acierto
Perl Programmer
Ocentrix Inc.
206.691.7603
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A famous linguist once said:
"There is no language wherein a double
positive can form a negative."
YEAH, RIGHT
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