Re^7: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers."

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Re^8: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 17, 2005 at 19:54 UTC
Yeah, I'm pretty sure those guys can deal with some closures. They'd probably think it was fun too. :)	[reply]
Re^9: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 18, 2005 at 01:46 UTC
But in all seriousness, I've had to teach Perl from scratch to multiple people (who were already programmers, just not Perl programmers). I taught them about how to use closures for creating dispatch tables and never had a problem. They picked it up easily, used the technique in Perl, and treated it like they did regular expressions: just another convenient construct that was available in Perl but not C. Note that I did not show them all possible uses of closures, just the one specific case which came up a lot in that codebase.	[reply]