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Dear admissions counselor,
Thanks for taking the time to review my question. Your response suggests that your
experience with
Perl, or programming with it may not be well informed as the higher level advanced
data structures
you refer to: files, records are in fact low level operations in Perl.
While Perl may be in fact a scripting language, in is easily compiled into an
executable, the same
as the other higher level languages.
It's true that working with Perl for 2 years says nothing about my experience or
ability to solve
complex problems; that I will willingly prove to you. It's also true that by answering
my question
in such an ill-informed manner, it says a enormous amount about your ability to makes
these
assessments in the first place, and even proves the lack thereof.
Thanks for taking the time to review my inquiry.
--- Jon Acierto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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