On 4/07/2013 9:59 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
<CAAJSdjg1jRs6DrNV7xzAftEoGcojyeGf=fvwkbdh_idvozp...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/03/2013
at 07:10 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:
http://www.itworld.com/it-management/363424/only-thing-programmers-have-fear-all-these-things
I say "yes" to most. #4 is being forced to learn or use some specific
technology
What if you consider a language to be ugly but also consider it to be
the best tool for the job? I don't care for Perl syntax, but between
the expressive power of the language and the modules available in
CPAN, I find myself using it regardless. That's not a boss telling me
that I have to - it's my own decision.
Perl is definately ugly. It has a very large and cryptic grammar which
makes it difficult to learn. I find it unpleasant to
program in but I also dislike most shell scripting languages. The best
thing about perl is the command line hacks.
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