On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 00:33, Jim Self wrote: > Suchi Pande wrote: > >Aylesworth Marc A Ctr AFRL/IFSE wrote: > >> Perl has a datatype that is a hash and can be accessed by the bucket name > >> but it does not require distinct keys so that anything on the node would be > >> returned as a list or Vector like datatype. > >> > > > >The classic data structures reference book for perl is Tom > >Christiansen's "perl data structures cookbook". > > > >My opinion: > > > >The trouble with perl as a language is linked to one of its strengths > >- namely TMTOWTDI (or: There's More Than One Way To Do It). > > > >This means that idioms keep coming up in perl, that people find hard > >to understand. So that code is often unreadable to others. This, > >together with the "line-noise" look of the code makes it hard to > >maintain later on by even the coder, let alone others. > > I don't know that Perl is the best complement to MUMPS as they seem to share > some similar > strengths and weaknesses. It's simply the one that makes the most sense to us > as a > starting point for building out our server base from MUMPS to integrate with > other > server-side programming languages. >
> One reason that we have started with a GTM to Perl interface is that one of > our > programmers is strongly passionate about his preference for programming in > Perl as "the > one true language" ;) and we wanted to encourage his passion for programming, > if not > specifically for Perl. > > I am intrigued with the possibility of writing a web oriented replacement for > Fileman in > Perl, or perhaps Python, or PhP, or Javascript in combination with GT.M. > It s a good choice and most of the complaints about Perl amount to petty jealousy. After looking at some of the code I saw scroll across this list in the last few days, a Perl interface is going to be downright peaceful. Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
