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In defense of <insert religion here>. A programming language is a tool and some tools are better than others. There's no need to defend them.
by omouse 18y ago
In defense of <insert religion here>. A programming language is a tool and some tools are better than others. There's no need to defend them.
- wheels 18y agoWell, it depends on why it's being attacked. My feeling is that Perl is an under-appreciated tool because it's not cool to like Perl. In the post I don't really try to defend Perl's actual flaws, which are many, but to point out to an audience that presumably mostly doesn't know Perl, that it can be really useful for some sorts of tasks.
- nailer 18y agoI feel Perl is under appreciated because too many people have inherited badly written Perl code, and thought that languages needed to enforce readability. Or wondered why blocks of code needed to be delimited once for humans via indentation, and once for a parser via curly brackets.
- stcredzero 18y agoAny given language is under appreciated by that subset of programmers that mistakes their own ignorance for the language's shortcomings.
- pchristensen 18y agoDoes Perl run on Vista? That would be an implosion of uncoolness :)
- mark-t 18y agoAre you suggesting religions don't need to be defended?