Re: OFF-TOPIC: Perl...

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Juan José 'Peco' San Martín <peco microbotica es> wrote:

> I know this is not the right place to write this but...
>
> I'm afraid of Perl. I love it, I think it's a wonderful language and
> what to say about CPAN... is uncomparable!.
>
> But today, if you want to develop for the the Nokia Smartphones
> (Symbian), or for the Nintendo DS, or for large systems or for
> GNOME/GTK, etc... the commom language seems to be Python.
>
> Perl6 is comming but may be it's too late.
>
> Really sorry for this FUD if somebody thinks that it's what is. :-/
>
> Thoughts are welcome.
>
> Peco
>
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Python, AFAIK, does not compare to Perl, and not in favor of Python.

AFAIK, there are no closures in Python, and scoping is poor.

A nice article by Larry Wall: "Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting..." ->

http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/997
.

If you're a fan of OOP, it has a pointer to "Moose" module:

http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Moose-0.36/lib/Moose.pm

- I am not that crazy about OOP, but this module can be a good argument
dealing with people who are.

Also, AFAIK, Python does not have anonymous import, which Perl has, and
this is my most favorite Perl feature.

I think the module supercedes OOP capabilities of Python, and maybe even
Ruby.

By the way, Ruby is a much cleaner than Python language, so I really do not
understand the hype around Python.

Perl is a really powerful and efficient language, and good programmers can
write really clean code in it.

Regards,
  Sergei.

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