Re: On Scripting versus Compiled solutions

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> PS: dig far enough and you'll discover he's not a fan of Perl at all, with good reasons.

Eric again. Though it is true that I'm not a big fan of Perl, I've also got nothing against it. Like everyone else, I'll joke occasionally about Perl (Perl: it's great because its got built-in obfuscation! Perl: it's the only language with the same information density as line noise!) but hey, if you guys find it floats your boats, more power to you.

What I'm confused about is the "good reasons" part. I don't _think_ I've ever written anything about perl that had any kind of reasoning in it. Cheap shots, like the above, yes. Reasoning, no. I'm just wondering what you're referring to.

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Re: Re: On Scripting versus Compiled solutions by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 10, 2004 at 21:57 UTC
I have a lot of respect for you that you came and said this. ++ to you. --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi}	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: On Scripting versus Compiled solutions by clintp (Curate) on Mar 12, 2004 at 23:48 UTC
What was unintentionally omitted in an edit was ", with good reasons I suppose." (belatedly edited to reflect that) There are a lot of reasons to dislike Perl (and I agree with a lot of them!) and since you seem to be a fairly clueful language guy, I assume that you'd have at least taken a glimpse at Perl at one point.	[reply]

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