In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/21/2006
at 08:27 AM, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>As you noted, you can do this with an add-on. Which illustrates a
>point that I don't think has been raised yet: the Perl folks think
>it's such a wonderful language, yet the language *itself* seems to me
>to be poorly designed and overly complex;
Perl is ugly, but too powerful to ignore.
>what makes Perl so powerful is all the add-on packages.
While the modules in CPAN are useful, the builtin facilities of Perl
already make it more powerful than REXX.
>The big difference between Perl and Rexx is that novices can write
>Rexx;
True, although REXX also has booby traps for the novice.
>When I worked at UofWaterloo, even full professors (*GASP*) could
>deal with Rexx!
If you're talking about professors in a real academic discipline, I'd
expect them to be capable of learning Perl as well. But REXX is a lot
easier for simple tasks.
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