In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> >> Stating the obvious is not bashing. In my last shop I was working with >> (very talented BTW) Perl programmer, and he was the first to make jokes >> on Perl's abuse of cryptic syntax. > >It's not abuse. It's meaningful and compact. The $scalars are >intuitive to anybody who has ever written a shell script, the @arrays >are immediately recognizable... I agree it takes some getting used to, >but then it becomes clear as day.
You're entitled to your opinion, but speaking as a former expert Perl programmer, I disagree with you. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
