would it be rude to ask ya'll to take this thread elsewhere. this list is so high-traffic already. if as a fledgling newbie i've overstepped any bounds, my apologies.
tia, ken On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Brett W. McCoy wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Maciejewski, Thomas wrote: > > > not to get flamed here but one of the reasons I dont like perl is that > > there are sometimes too many ways to do something ... and all of them > > are fairly cryptic ... people having different coding styles can really > > confuse the hell out of someone else that is trying to do some work with > > the code. > > Why are you on a Perl list if you don't like Perl... > > Anyway, this could be a long debate and everyone will have different > opinions. I use Java very little, although the software the company I > work is primarily all Java -- application server & bundled Tomcat -- and I > have had to diddle around with some of the Java servlets & JSP to get it > to cooperate with the system level stuff I usually work on (which is all > Perl). However, I have also done a lot of Perl web stuff in other venues, > both on Unix & Windows, using mod_perl, plain old CGI and ASP/PerlScript. > > Java is a very clean language -- almost to clean for my tastes, to the > point that it almost looks like Visual Basic! :-) > > My personal preference for web development is with mod_perl & Mason. You > can create very clean (at least for Perl), easy to maintain code, but you > still get the freedom and flexibility that Perl has always provided. > > If you have a multi-programmer software project, you MUST have some kind > of coding standard or guideline. I'm trying to get the couple other > people in my company who occasionally do Perl (we're mainly a Java shop > with a couple of exceptions, like myself) to try to follow some sensible > Perl coding guidelines -- like using strict, using proper scoping, etc. > The problem is that these folks see Perl more as a fancy shell scripting > language, and are only slowly seeing that Perl can be used for far more > and in a much more elegant way than just writing replacements for shell > scripts. > > -- Brett > http://www.chapelperilous.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mos Eisley Spaceport; you'll not find a more wretched collection of > villainy and disreputable types... > -- Obi-wan Kenobi, "Star Wars" > > > KeN _____________________________________ http://quantifier.org GnuPG: 7C828670 2:15pm up 1 day, 23:57 Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless. -- Homer Simpson Homer The Vigilante -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
