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I agree that programmers should learn the 'Unix philosophy', but lumping Perl in there doesn't make much sense. Perl is just a scripting language, like Python o
by lubutu 14y ago
I agree that programmers should learn the 'Unix philosophy', but lumping Perl in there doesn't make much sense. Perl is just a scripting language, like Python or Ruby, and one of which I'm not particularly fond. It does not espouse 'one tool, one task' — "those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl." Definitely learn shell, awk, sed, and co. But avoiding Perl won't do any harm.
- kamaal 14y ago>>Perl is just a scripting language And its amazingly great at that. I don't know any other language which as powerful as Perl for back end work. There is whole world inside that 'Just' which many other languages suck at. >>"those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl." Definitely learn shell, awk, sed, and co. But avoiding Perl won't do any harm. The only harm you will incur is never understand what Perl offers and try to recreate the same magic in some other language. Often writing highly verbose pieces of code to do what Perl offers in a more neat, concise and better way.