in reply to Programming Languages

Well said, sstevens. I describe Perl to the unenlightened as is the Swiss Army Knife of programming languages. I have yet to find anything it can't do.

I haven't tried Lisp. I can assure you that Perl beats the hell out of <show-age>Fortran and PL/I</show-age>. I also could not see what all the fuss is about with Ruby.

Java snobs always sniff about how superior their language is, and how "unmaintainable" Perl is. But I find Java inscrutable because of its atomistic style with all the teeny-tiny methods scattered all over the place. Anyway if I wanted that I could do it with OO Perl. Plus declaring EVERY SINGLE THING is just plain annoying. I can prototype code in Perl in a quarter of the time it takes in Java.

Viva la Perl! (Or is it el Perl?)

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Re^2: Programming Languages
by bruno (Friar) on Aug 16, 2008 at 14:35 UTC
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    Viva la Perl! (Or is it el Perl?)

    If you are thinking of Perl as pearl (you know, the oyster's pearl) then it would be "la". But if you are referring to the programming language Perl, it doesn't go with an article because it's a proper name.

    So it would be "Viva Perl!".

    PS: This got me thinking that, in spite of Larry thinking of Perl as one of his daughters, in spanish Perl thought as a programming language would be male because the noun "language" is male.

    </offtopic>

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