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My first language was C. The first language I loved was Perl. Perl will always hold a special place in my heart and I will look back on it as the "good ole day
by fingerprinter 14y ago
My first language was C. The first language I loved was Perl.
Perl will always hold a special place in my heart and I will look back on it as the "good ole days", but I don't know if I'll ever program in it again.
- kbenson 14y agoI'm curious as to why? Do you think it's deficient compared to what you currently use to fulfill that niche, or do you have other reasons?
- zoul 14y agoFor me, I don’t feel comfortable working without a static type system. I love Perl (and initially mistyped that as “live” Perl, which is nice), but nothing beats the feeling of the compiler going through the code for me. Granted, I still have the test suite, but that’s much more work than just getting the types right.
- kbenson 14y agoI'll agree with that. There's numerous times I've wanted to be able to assume (correctly) that a scalar holds a certain value type. At the same time, it sometimes feels constraining to design within that limitation. I think optional typing is the future here, and Perl 6 has it, as well as a few other modern languages.