About 8 years ago, I interviewed at (internationally recognized company name redacted) and they said they have a policy that perl is explicitly not allowed.
My resume mentions that I wrote a book about perl. Interview pretty much ended at that point. Perl allowed a number of issues to creep in at the beginning and never fixed them. Named parameters for subroutines is, like, a no brainer. But perl doesnt have it. The alphabet soup of symbology is annoying and inconsistent. The class/oo interface is a total hack. The interviewer stated that perl wasnt allowed because it wasnt "strongly typed", that it wasnt even "weakly typed". And perl feels like it went out of its wayto not have compile time checks. Honestly, perl6 may be better off if it brands itself as "rakudo" instead of a sequel to perl. The biggest selling point of perl 6 in my opinion is that it fixes all the things fundementally wrong with perl that made perl a bad language. I still use perl because its one of the languages that I pretty much can code in my sleep. I know how to code most of the things I need to code without looking anything up. Back in the day, I remember a guy who had a career in fortran and he was just doing contract work in fortran for old systems that needded maintenance, and holding out for retirement. I didnt understand it then. But I get it now. If there was a programming language that didnt have the language problems that perl does and implements "computer language" with no fundamental shortcomings, if it has a good regular expression interface, introspection so I can hack variables if I need to, a real OO interface, then I'd probably focus on learning that and phase out writing new perl scripts at work. Or if rakudo could run fast, id jump to that. Ah well. Greg On Wed, November 1, 2017 3:42 am, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > We may have a bit of an image problem. Perl was the #1 most disliked > language in a recent poll on Stack Overflow. Surprisingly, Delphi was #2; I > didn't think it was known and used widely enough to score that high on the > list. > > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-10-programming-languages-develop > ers-hate-the-most/ > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
