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I was amused by: Perl 5: Paradigm: Yes*
by sambeau 13y ago
I was amused by:
Perl 5: Paradigm: Yes*
- V-2 13y agoYes, No, FileNotFound, three major paradigms
- laumars 13y agoIt was the "unmaintainable" comment that got me. This guy clearly doesn't like Perl and is letting his bias affect the list. Perl is no less or more maintainable than any other programming language. It just depends on the developers you use that particular tool. And the whole "Perl promotes unreadable code" is really a thing of the past; modern Perl has come on leaps and bounds.
- Strang 13y agoAgreed. I thought "Paradigm: Yes" was hilarious, but the Perl row has a few errors. "Function Overloading" should be "N/A" for a language without subroutine signatures. Any Perl function can take any combination of arguments and decide what to do with them. This is used to create de facto function overloading. "Method Pointers: No" is ridiculous. Perl has subroutine references, which includes methods. You can even use a method name string as a method reference if you need to.
- sambeau 13y agoI think if you read this in the context of Hixie being a well-know internet person, standards geek and known Perl hacker you can see that it is supposed to be humorous (and a little self-depracating being he has to maintain his own Perl scripts). Don't take it too seriously and you will see there is a more than a grain of truth in what he says. http://ian.hixie.ch/career/resume.html http://ian.hixie.ch/career/resume.html http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/find?string=PLIF/ http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/find?string=PLIF/ http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data.pl http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data.pl http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/pingback-proxy/server-to-get-proxy.pl http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/pingback-proxy/server...