Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:16:52 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: root@isis.dynip.com, ben@scientia.demon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help About Shell Script Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081611260.34349-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <19990208180330.13189.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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I know that perl is a pain, that's what I meant about obfuscation. It's easy to do that if you're not careful. I only use it for small 'utility like' programs or things that rely on heavy text processing. I do have Programming Python on my bookshelf just dying to be read. I'm also learning C++ because half the software I want to contribute to is written in it (like Blackbox). ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Greg Black wrote: > > Don't worry about perl. I learned it at 14 and had it pretty well > > mastered (meaning I could Obfuscate my code for dem contests) as I turned > > 16. I also learned C about that time and now (being sixteen) am learning > > C++. Perl is *really* easy to learn. > > And when you grow up, you'll realize that neither perl or C++ is > worth learning. These languages are both absurd examples of how > not to invent a programming language. > > > Go to www.oreilly.com and get 'Learning Perl', 'Programming Perl', and if > > you're rich get the 'Perl Cookbook' too. There's also a really nifty > > Pocket Reference. > > You'll go blind if you do this -- of all currently popular > langauges, perl is the one most calculated to induce visual > dizziness. > > The real answer is to use real languages with clean and elegant > syntax and sufficient simplicity to be easy to read -- the > write-only nature of both perl and C++ means that, even when > people get something working, it's almost impossible for the > author (let alone anybody else) to make changes later without > breaking everything. The obvious examples of languages that are > worth learning are C and Python (and probably lisp). > > -- > Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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