Curious if they also banned Python and Ruby if they were against strongly typed languages.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote: > I had an interview with Apple for a hardware design job a year or so ago. > They said they explicitly forbid the use of perl for any of their glue > function scripting needs. they said they use java. > > I think I was unable to entirely suppress how much I thought this was a > stupid idea in the middle of the interview. I wasnt offered a job, but I > dont think I wouod have been happy if I had taken a job there with such a > dogmatic approach to that. > > I do hope that perl 6 might make a better name for itself in terms of how > much of the code is line noise. but the interviewer said one of the reasons > that they didnt allow perl was because it wasnt strongly typed. > > I mentioned during the interview I had 5 or so years doing Ada and VHDL > for avionics projects, and that strongly typed is probably a good idea when > peoples lives depend on solid code. but that when youre trying to write a > glue script to take log files from a regression and generate a report, you > dont want to spend your time converting strings to integers and integers to > floats and so on. > > i spent some time teaching myaelf Java after that interview just so i > could at least answer 'what does this snippet of code do?' interview > questions. > > I have to say I was not impressed with Java.Connected by DROID on Verizon > Wireless > > > -----Original message----- > From: Uri Guttman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 00:20:47 GMT+00:00 > Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Suppresion > > On 12/09/2011 06:38 PM, John Tsangaris wrote: > >> I am sure this has been hashed and rehashed, but is the corporate world >> suppressing Perl? I realize people pick and choose the languages they >> support and list on their websites, but I was looking up the youtube api >> and see on code.google.com that they have dev guides for Java, .NET, >> PHP, and Python with client libraries for those as well as Objective-C >> and Javascript. This being only one example, I see a systemic omission >> of Perl from anything popular. Is this accurate ? Why is Perl omitted : >> I must be seeing things. >> > > there is a Net::Google on cpan so google probably doesn't need toprovide > that. hard to find an api/protocol without a cpan module for it.one module > says Interface to the Google AJAX Search API. so as long asgoogle publishes > the api, perl will be hacked for it. this also meansthe other lang > communities are too dumb to write their own libs topublished apis. :) > > > uri > > ______________________________**_________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/**listinfo/boston-pm<http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/**listinfo/boston-pm<http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm> > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
