On 7/14/06, C. Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perl doesn't have the pedigree to make it popular in academic circles. I > remember reading how Damian Conway's peers told him he'd ruin his academic > career if he continued pursuing his interest in Perl. So while you might > find the occassional good Perl course at a college, I think you'll usually > find that Perl is given short shrift.
Agree. Perl is not buzzword-compliant, so courses are in no^H^Hshort supply. What you see more of as far as coursework is concerned is C/C++ (foundational languages, still very good and useful to learn), Java (bleh), and *.NET (**bleh**). I've even seen at least one junior college offering a PHP course now. I cry for humanity. > Others will tell you that Perl is a write-only language. I.e., what one > programmer writes, no one else will be able to decipher. And extended > form of this is the complaint by some that Perl isn't appropriate for > large projects involving many developers. This is a fall out of TIMTOWTDI. Such accusations are vile and odious lies of the bourgeoisie. Be not swayed by the Party line. I have personally managed a project involving 6 developers and 750,000 lines of Perl code. A quality OO design and instillment of best practices with Perl will get you as far as (or even farther than) any bondage-and-discipline language. Mind you, there are some things to like about B&D in C++, but RAD in Perl is fine also. -- Stephen Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
