On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:03, Carl Cerecke wrote:Too terse (a product of its era)
So what's your gripe with Perl, then?Haha. I knew somebody would bite sooner or later.
Write something largish (> 500 lines) in perl and then write the same
program in python.
[snip] Exactly. I wrote Perl once, in 1998, and I vowed never to touch it again.
As for C, the older I get, the less I like it (unless I'm writing I
program that outputs C code. Then it's OK).
It is still the ultimate programing language. Its faults are your faults.
Best example of this has to be the {} brackets instead of begin end in Delphi. It's so easy to put ( or ) by mistake and wonder why it won't compile, as they look very similar on most machines.
Encourages writing of complicated code that is hard to understand
Case sensitive
I can probably think of some others
On Windows I prefer to use Delphi. In PHP I go to un-C-like trouble to make the code easy to understand including all { } on a line by themselves.
