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By the definition from Rich Hickey, lua seems to be optimized for simplicity while perl is for easiness.
by gosub 14y ago
By the definition from Rich Hickey, lua seems to be optimized for simplicity while perl is for easiness.
- kabdib 14y agoI've been trading-in my habit of writing one-off Perl scripts for writing them in C#. I just clone a template file containing enough to get a "while(<>) { ... }" equivalent and a vanilla regular expression going -- ninety percent of what my one-offs need -- and I'm off and coding. The result is something that may or may not be faster, or clearer . . . but it's a whole lot easier to debug when something goes wrong. I learned Perl about a decade ago, and have never felt that plumbing its depths (references were about as sophisticated as I got) would pay off. (I won't get into what I think is broken about Perl, because that discussion definitely won't pay off :-) )
- bloblaw 14y agoThe open-source visual IDE written in Perl, called Padre, has an excellent integrated debugger. http://padre.perlide.org/ http://padre.perlide.org/. With the latest version of Padre, I find debugging Perl scripts to be as easy as C#. Or you can use the commercial Komodo editor which has another high quality Perl debugger.