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Re^2: Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?

by bradenshep (Beadle)
on Oct 03, 2007 at 14:40 UTC ( [id://642418]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?
in thread Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?

The LWP idea is bang-on.

My roommate (both of us Computer Science majors) spurned Perl despite my testimonial. But then he wanted to write a script that was right up WWW::Mechanize's alley, munging some web pages and submitting some forms. He was saying "I want to do this program, but it will be really painful and messy." And I said "I can do it in 30 lines of Perl." Of course he didn't believe me.

So, whether it's LWP or WWW::Mechanize, get them thinking about some problem that would be excrutiating in another language, then show the simplicity of the Perl solution.

It took me 22 lines. He uses Perl a lot now.

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