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From: jm on 4 Apr 2008 17:08 perl provides good things and bad ones. In the good thing, such as: * it is adapted for text processing * it is poorly typed * it is enough powerful with unicode * provide arrays and hash and reference (and objects) * transparently manage any kind of numbers. * is C interfacable * has basic network and IPC possibilities * pack/unpack In the bad things, such as: * bytes/unicode confusion * stack overflow within bad regular expression * memory consumption (might be an issue when energy will be more expensive?) * insufficient typing * some portability issue, notably with function �system�. * some $@% issues. * pack limitation: cannot just modify one byte. perl6 looks like a cleanup of perl, but I am wondering: how will memory be handled in perl6? how will bytes be handled in perl6? why perl6 encourages complex regex (as x become standard)? how will perl6 address portability issues? how will perl6 address IPC issues?
From: Dr.Ruud on 5 Apr 2008 12:03 jm schreef: > perl [...] is poorly typed By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?) -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger."
From: V.Ronans on 5 Apr 2008 17:55 Dr.Ruud wrote: > jm schreef: > >> perl [...] is poorly typed > > By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?) Honestly, you know full well he was talking about the programming language that pertains to this here news group, so feign ignorance? I mean why is this even such an issue? Other places where people talk about programming languages don't seem to care if it's all caps, first only capitalized, or all lowercase, or what have you. I've seen Java, java, and JAVA, cpp, C++, c++, c, C, python, PYTHON, cobol, Cobol, COBOL, and the list goes on. So why make such a stink about something so damn trivial? Does it make you feel special? Perl is great, but I've always thought some of it's backers (at least in this group) could use a dose of reality and stop behaving like such self-important elitists and come back down to Earth. This BS just keeps on repeating and it serves no one any good whatsoever.
From: xhoster on 5 Apr 2008 18:34 "V.Ronans" <v_r(a)spamless.and.happy> wrote: > Dr.Ruud wrote: > > jm schreef: > > > >> perl [...] is poorly typed > > > > By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?) > > Honestly, you know full well he was talking about the programming > language that pertains to this here news group, so feign ignorance? I > mean why is this even such an issue? Other places where people talk > about programming languages don't seem to care if it's all caps, first > only capitalized, or all lowercase, or what have you. I've seen Java, > java, and JAVA, cpp, C++, c++, c, C, python, PYTHON, cobol, Cobol, > COBOL, and the list goes on. > > So why make such a stink about something so damn trivial? Programming requires attention to detail. Well, good programming does, anyway. Xho -- -------------------- http://NewsReader.Com/ -------------------- The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
From: V.Ronans on 5 Apr 2008 21:25
xhoster(a)gmail.com wrote: > "V.Ronans" <v_r(a)spamless.and.happy> wrote: >> Dr.Ruud wrote: >>> jm schreef: >>> >>>> perl [...] is poorly typed >>> >>> By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?) >> >> Honestly, you know full well he was talking about the programming >> language that pertains to this here news group, so feign ignorance? I >> mean why is this even such an issue? Other places where people talk >> about programming languages don't seem to care if it's all caps, >> first only capitalized, or all lowercase, or what have you. I've >> seen Java, java, and JAVA, cpp, C++, c++, c, C, python, PYTHON, >> cobol, Cobol, COBOL, and the list goes on. >> >> So why make such a stink about something so damn trivial? > > Programming requires attention to detail. Well, good programming > does, anyway. Yes, when _programming_, not with geenral petty conversations, such responses as "it's Perl not perl or PERL" serve NO PURPOSE. Arguably neither does this leg of the thread, but that because people like you refuse to pull out your heads for some fresh air. |