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
Who'd have guessed the language / culture that surpassed the Obfuscated C contest with invention of golf scoring might have an image problem? Web 1.0 was built on dirty old Perl 4 and Perl 5.5. All that flexibility might be good for something, but organizations not in innovation mode tend to prefer standards to flexibility. 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. > As an improvement on Shell and Awk , this is not unreasonable. Various modules allow for doing what checking is desired. A language founded on TIMTOWTDI will be wrong for a firm with a B&D culture. Honestly, perl6 may be better off if it brands itself as "rakudo" instead > of a sequel to perl. Yes. There is talk they might... 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. > Flexibility can be a good thing in some contexts. Duck-typing did not make Lisp or SmallTalk "bad languages" except to those brainwashed that strong typing is essential for for computer science blessings. It is a very useful concept, but screws and nails should not be driven with the same tool. But yes, P6 looks more like a programming language than a scripting language straight out of the box, yet retains the whipitupitude for scripting. introspection > so I can hack variables if I need to, Introspection is generally less ugly / more useful in a ducktyping / runtime-typing world. Runtime introspection in a compile time typed world is usually a worse hack than pre-Moose Perl OO. a real OO interface, Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough? Or if rakudo could run fast, id jump to that. > All in good time. I need to check if they've completed the unfinished bits I was waiting for ... > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
