Re: language theory regarding Perl/Ruby in universities ?



Michael M. wrote:

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Perl -> Python http://www.python.org/ , Ruby, etc.
In may opinion, things like Python will used more and more for an Perl replacement. (I worte thousend of lines of code for internet service providers... and other things. The Problem with Perl is, that you can do one thing in too many different ways.)

And why is that bad?

Adopting an admittedly flawed analogy, one could equally well fault
German as being a language in which you can express "one thing in
too many different ways." It doesn't seem to me that such an argument
is an indictment against using German.

I understand that a natural language is different from a programming
language, but what's so wrong with a language being expressive?

I applaud the fact that you can do the same thing in different ways
in Perl [in fact, wouldn't that apply to most languages?]. Admittedly,
some ways are better than others with respect to machine efficiency,
readibility, or mainainability, but that's the sort of thing that
practitioners in the language should be used to.

A small nit-pick. Take it for what it's worth.


Regards,

Rick

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