Stephen Clouse wrote: >> 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.
You guys are Awesome!! :-) Hey, thanks so much for the detailed emails. I really appreciate you not only sharing your thoughts but also telling me how Perl is used in todays world. I'll definitely look into those books, websites and lists you shared. I'll be interested to know where you all decide to start meeting in the future. I was at one of your meetings a few years back at Planet Sub. I thought everyone was extremely nice and helpful. My only problem was I had a hard time keeping up with the conversation just because of my lack of Perl knowledge. I mainly program in AppleScript, JavaScript (for Adobe apps) and VBA (for Excel) on the Mac. We have a little bit of Perl code (written by an outside programmer) in our department that edits PostScript files but I never have to work with it since it runs so smoothly. I have also taken a C++ class but found that language incredibly difficult to grasp. I'm hoping to someday have a better understanding of Perl. It sounds so incredibly useful as well as powerful. Again, I appreciate your responses and hope to hear more responses from others about what they think of Perl and how they use it. I'll also try to get to a future meeting with you all. Thanks again! Jay _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
