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Re^2: Perl for all ages?

by bradenshep (Beadle)
on Feb 11, 2007 at 06:00 UTC ( [id://599432]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Perl for all ages?
in thread Perl for all ages?

This is unfortunately near the mark.

I myself am a few months from 20, been using Perl just over a year.
I've known Java for years, and that was the language of my school (University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada) for the first year, but then we move to C++.

Fortunately most of my fellow Comp Sci majors are skeptical and intelligent enough to not just drink the Java Kool-Aid without question. Still, they look at me funny when I mention Perl. By the time they finish asking me why I use such a dead/write-only/old/etc. language, my work is done, and that's all the reason I need. A few are beginning to see the light.

Back when I was first learning Perl, I used to worry that loose typing would "guess wrong" and cause problems, and the parameter passing was almost too weird to accept.
Eventually, I got used to this, and now it's the opposite: In Java or C++ I'm constantly wishing for map, reduce and grep. It takes so long to get anything done in those languages. At least C++ runs fast when you finally get finished.

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