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I liked Perl for text parsing and that kind of work.. Used it professionally for about 3 years. Two things i didn't like about it which i still don't 1. It's
by noufalibrahim 3y ago
I liked Perl for text parsing and that kind of work.. Used it professionally for about 3 years.
Two things i didn't like about it which i still don't
1. It's a conceptually huge language. There are several things to learn to be effective or you fall into the problem when the 10% that you use is different from the 10% that your teammates use. I found python attractive because of this.
2. I disliked Walls book. It was long winded and very hard to sit down with when I wanted to find something. I expected something like K&R but found it tedious and boring.
- emmelaich 3y agoregarding 2., are you sure you're referring to the Camel book and not the Llama book? To me, Programming Perl (Wall, Camel) is closer in spirit to K&R than Learning Perl (Schwartz, Llama)
- noufalibrahim 3y agoAh.. I'm not sure now.. It was a long time ago and i can't really remember which it was. The name Schwarz is familiar. Maybe it was that.
- zephyrfalcon 3y agoIMHO, Python is also huge nowadays. :( (The language itself, that is, not counting the 500K+ third-party libraries that it has nowadays.) As for the Camel book, what I liked about it is that it explains why Perl is the way it is... the underlying philosophy. Once you know that, it starts making a lot more sense. You usually didn't get that with books like "Learn Perl in 21 days" or something.
- noufalibrahim 3y agoI get that. My gold standard for technical writing was (and mostly still is), the C programming language by K&R. Brief, to the point and not missing anything. It's what I expected from the Perl book but didn't get.
- SuaveSteve 3y agoYou will look up how to interpret `match` whenever you see it and you will like it. One way to do things? Pfffft.
- noufalibrahim 3y agoOh, it lost that a long time ago. (e.g. string formatting methods). However, this was around 2005 or so and at the time, Python was significantly smaller (conceptually) than Perl. Atleast to me.
- forinti 3y agoThere's always Perl Cookbook if you need somewhere to look up solutions.