My question is for anyone that opts to use perl in any field dominated by other languages. Does anyone else encounter ignorant stereotypes and criticism of perl?
Every tool has its use right? While perl is well known for doing text parsing, just like c++ and java for business or oop related solutions, there is no reason I can't write a compiler in perl for my own language and to run it.

Having said that, can you find out why you specifically were penalized? If you can find someone who has a similarly laid out solution, you may be able to argue that these two are similar, yours and someone else's... why does yours receive a lower mark?

The other side of it is, it's a harsh world. i've been given lower grades due to my ethnicity, when I've done better than my fellow students on exams, participated a lot and what not, and get full letter grades. Sometimes, you just have to live with the ignorance.

I've heard perl to be messy, convoluded or not powerful. But you know what their problem is when they don't give you specific problems with a language that are factual and give you opinions? Their gnorance. For instance, your professor, or someone says, perl is only good at text parsing. Provide proof that it's good at other things, and you'll prove them by negating their argument. Point them at all the neat algorithmic and matrix math stuff. Show them all the biology related stuff. And if they refuse, just move on.

When you get somewhere in life, assuming you are not a systems architect or designer now, you will have this experience and the wisdom to say, "Well, I used a language once, perl, c, ruby.. something, and it was descriminated against because of some popular belief. Let me find out the facts."


I used to be a funny character, now I'm just 4 bits.

In reply to Re: Stereotypes about perl by exussum0
in thread Stereotypes about perl by nherdboi

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