On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Amias Channer wrote: > > > >> Since Perl is best known for its oneliners how about we represent > >> Perl by doing a top ten Perl one liners talk/skit for techadventure ? > >> > > Thats like saying Casanova was best known for one night stands > > > > Max > > > > I agree. My initial contact with Perl was when everyone was basically > saying Perl was CGI (obviously not, but it was a common misconception at > one point). I found out about Perl one liners much later, I've always > thought it's the complicated and hard to read one liners that cause a > lot of the 'Perl is hard to read/understand' folly.
IMO, one of perl's selling points is its position as the best sysadmin tool for text processing. Whereas perl's case in the world of say web frameworks, ORMs, etc is questionable with languages and their libraries like python, Ruby, Java, and even PHP around, simply nothing can touch it on the command line. Having seen some absolute horrors from VB scripts to lengthy Java programs to do what perl can do in a few characters, I really think this is something you can sell to folks. P > > Maybe we could do a bit on common one liners and short scripts. Then > something like 'Perl can be easy to read' and the same examples with a > touch of PBP to try and show people that Perl is (or can be) friendly > and readable. > > > Lyle > > _______________________________________________ > BristolBathPM mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm >
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