In <1320209731.19884.yahoomail...@web161402.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, on
11/01/2011
at 09:55 PM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> said:
>From the paper: 'Perl users were unable to write programs more
>accurately than those using a language designed by chance.'
What do they mean by "Perl users"? If it's people who had just learned
Perl then the study is meaningless.
FWIW, I consider Perl to be an ugly[1] language with too much
expressive power to ignore. Were Icon or SETL available for as many
platforms and with libraries comparable to CPAN then I'd prefer them.
[1] IMHO a good language should have no reserved words and almost
no[2] circumstances requiring escape characters.
[2] It's hard to avoid, e.g., doubling quotes inside of a quoted
string, but the Unix tradition of \ all over the place is
ridiculous.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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