Re: Stylistic note on loops
On 07.11.2010 20:33, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
For an entire set of tasks I therefore used Perl,
starting with 4.019. I got good with it, and never understood why anyone had
serious problems with it, including the so-called "line noise" "problem"
that was never a problem for me. I found that universal software engineering
principles (modularity, proper naming conventions, understanding scope) took
care of problems in Perl that people always seemed to be complaining about,
that are in fact problems in practically every other programming language.
Few years back I was used to Perl, too. But nowadays I have forgotten
all the subtleties of references arrays, scalars and implicit
conversions going on. That makes me wary and I wouldn't be so sure
whether I can properly decode a Perl program without going back and
forth through documentation nowadays. I would not say the same about C
for example which I do not use for several years as well. I would still
consider it more readable than Perl and this is what makes be believe
that Perl has real disadvantages compared to other similar languages.
Kind regards
robert
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