On Aug 17, Jon Acierto said:
>"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."
Perhaps you should bring to the attention of your colleagues that even
Perl's simplest data structures are amazing.
Arrays that resize automagically.
Hashes that resize automagically.
Hashes are built-in! Uniqueness and set theory are solved instantly.
Lots of long-winded algorithms are reduced to child's play in Perl. That
is its own type of "level" -- it's like driving a car across country
versus pressing a button that puts you in a car and drives you across the
country for you.
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