Your quote is incorrect, from what I remember, that is. It's more like "a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" (sp?).
Dean -----Original Message----- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:22 AM To: Maciejewski, Thomas Cc: 'Bob Showalter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: C vs. Perl 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" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
