Re^2: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl!

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Re^3: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by spiritway (Vicar) on Oct 11, 2005 at 05:33 UTC
Look, tovarishch, he never suggested that Java guys attack, or Perl guys are innocent lambs. All he said is that the discussion went from the merits of the concepts of strong typing, etc., to the merits of the languages. You are misquoting the article about OO. The poster there claimed that Perl has OO features, not that it is an OO language. No one is claiming Perl is an OO language, yet you consistently come here to shout that it's not an OO language. You're right - Perl is not an OO language.	[reply]
Re^4: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by herveus (Prior) on Oct 11, 2005 at 11:23 UTC
Howdy! ...and once you say "strong typing" (or "weak typing"), you are probably off in to serious hand-waving unless you have taken care to clearly define exactly what you mean when you say "strong typing", as the term is used in the literature to mean diametrically opposed concepts. In one perfectly reasonable sense, Perl is far more strongly typed than java. I think that trotting out the phrase is often an attempt to take a swipe by implying that strong == good (and therefore weak == bad) thus my fu is better than your fu. It's mostly just BS. yours, Michael	[reply]
Re^3: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by jbrugger (Parson) on Oct 11, 2005 at 09:33 UTC
how to shoot yourself in the foot (compare the languages, now this is objective :) ) "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." - Larry Wall.	[reply]
Re^3: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by BillyGoatGruff (Novice) on Oct 11, 2005 at 08:57 UTC
<sniff sniff> I smell one of those.... you know... word escapes me at the moment... Tend to live under bridges and hassle innocent bouquetin. If you ignore them they tend to go away.	[reply]
Re^3: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 10, 2005 at 21:24 UTC
Well, Java certainly isn’t very OO. Perl isn’t either. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^4: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2005 at 03:26 UTC
Okay, but the post you were replying never compared Java and Perl in the OO sense. The guy or the gal was simply mentioning that there was a post on this forum before, which claimed Perl is more OO, and he/she thought that was a very typical example of advocacy, and a very hot-headed one. You have agreed that Perl is not that OO, which is great. But you simply assumed that the post was saying "Java is more OO then Perl", doesn't matter whether that was true, that was never mentioned. Let's not to be so nervous about Perl's position, and believe that it is in a good shape. Although I personally believe that Perl is losing its attraction (which is normal with anything that has this much history), and Perl 6 is not going to help.	[reply]