On 25 Mar 2008, at 14:05, Gergely Brautigam wrote:
Frankly, I don’t know :)
Like I said I'm only learning... You know thinking it's only
actually a scripting language it can be pretty powerfull, but it
stays a scripting language after all. Know higher class decalrations
and no higher hierarchy apart from moduls.
The "only a scripting language" thing is a bit of a canard. It's a
compiled language with an efficient runtime. It's object oriented - in
some senses more so than Java.
I'm not sure what you mean by "higher class decalrations" or "no
higher hierarchy apart from moduls". Modules are packages with their
own namespaces. In general the facilities for organising code are
comparable with any other language that supports namespaces.
There's loads of material about this at perldoc.perl.org and elsewhere
on the 'net - and this isn't a Perl advocacy list.
So I'm only guessing that in large it would be quit unmanagalbe.
Thinking of the enviroment we had... Brrr.. I mean we had over 3000
files ( not counting the non perl ones ) and not one of them was
over 2000 in line number... That is quite not good :)
That sounds like an organisational problem that's independent of the
choice of language.
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
