On 12/30/2016 05:32 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
On 31/12/16 10:01, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 12/30/2016 01:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
In conclusion
Either one is good. Learn them both at least superficially. Tinker and
play with them and see which one is right for you.
Perl's big advantage (over C) is that you can code twice as fast. The code
run twice as slow, but that is another issue.
And, if you are a sloppy programmer, Perl is truly a "write only"
language. It becomes impossible to maintain.
I personally use Top Down that I learned with Pascal and Modula 2.
My Perl programs are easy to maintain. Some Perl scripts I
have looked at, I just have to shake my head. What in the world
is going on. There is no enforcement of good programing
practices in Perl.
I have to disagree with your last point. The programming language should
never dictate programming practices. That is up to the programmer to do.
Trying to solve a human problem like 'style' with technology is a
failure from the start.
Pascal did force a lot on the programmer. It did back fire.
And there is a lot of really miserable code out there.
It is not how fast you can code something. It is how maintainable
it is afterwards. Some folks refuse to write maintainable code.
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