I'm stepping in to defend PERL. PERL is the official language of "gettin' 'er done". You've got 10 minutes to accomplish a one-time task and you don't have time to sit and plan out sophisticated classes with polymorphism in Java. You have to connect to several different completely unique data sources so you can hit up CPAN for modules that facilitate it. Write some sophisticated data structures leveraging PERL's references. Pipe the output to a big number-crunching program that someone hand coded in x86 assembly and you're finished.
No other langauge begins to approach that kind of versatility or if it does it runs like a mule or takes forever to create code. PERL doesn't promote the cleanest source code and basically throws everything you learned in college out the window with its loose data types and hacked attempts at objects. But decently written PERL code is only about 10% slower than C and it gets things done quickly, efficiently, and without a lot of pain. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Root Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RLUG] Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Fellow RLUG'ers, > > This flash from the recent past showed up on reddit today. Even if > you're interested in niether Lisp nor goat vomit, it always provides a > good read. Take heart all you silly *cough*C++*cough* programmers out > there! ;-) > > Actually, I probably don't know EVERYTHING there is to know about goat vomit, so I just might be interested.......... > http://www.underlevel.net/jordan/erik-perl.txt > > -- > If UNIX doesn't have the solution you have the wrong problem. > UNIX is simple, but it takes a genius to understand it's simplicity. > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient (s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender via reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
