Clive George wrote:
On 07/05/2010 14:07, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Clive George wrote:
On 07/05/2010 11:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

PERL is neither fish nor fowl nor fresh red herring. Just foul.

Perl is great. It's possible to use it in a foul manner, but it's also
possible to use sensibly.

Its a tool for sysadmins with pretensions towards programing.

It's a great tool for programmers doing sysadmin type tasks, as well
as little problems.

Real programmers use a compiler.

http://xkcd.com/378/
http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Professional programmers use the appropriate tool for the job.

Which is almost never PERL.

A comment indicating an almost dennis-like level of cluelessness.

A comment indication a large and unsatisfactory exposure to PERL
programmers who said it was better, and failed to achieve speed, CPU or
RAM efficiency or largely to make the programs work at all.

Maybe I've been unlucky, but PERL programmers in my experience are
almost always bad programmers