Re: language theory regarding Perl/Ruby in universities ?



Perl -> Pythonhttp://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.

I have a python book, but couldn't really get motivated to do much
with it. Perl has more
modules in CPAN and I allready knew Perl. Rails got me motivated to
learn Ruby, but there was never any motivating factor to
learn python, though I believe it is a good language.

The Problem with Perl is, that you can do
one thing in too many different ways.)


I have heard Perl has many ways to do things, but I never tried to
figure out what that really means. I'm not sure how that goes into the
design of the language ?
Mostly I just figured out what I could do and didn't try to figure out
how many ways I could do it.



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Forth and Unix -- history
    ... Forth, as a language, gives you all the building blocks. ... So does FORTRAN, so does C, so does PERL, so does Python. ... to interface to some free library written in whatever language. ...
    (comp.lang.forth)
  • Re: New to Python: Features
    ... >> Try Perl or Ruby instead. ... If you require a feature that Python does not have, never had, never ... bowels of the language and perform any level of hacks, ...
    (comp.lang.python)
  • Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java
    ... knowing Perl is helping in my learning of Ruby. ... let's just say I think Ruby is a vast improvement on Perl. ... Frankly, I think one of the biggest reasons Java and, to a slightly ... Language" sense of entitlement -- not universally, ...
    (comp.lang.ruby)
  • Re: Ruby vs. PHP
    ... done is checked out which versions of Perl, Python, YARV, Ruby, jRuby ... dynamic language to the seconds for the benchmark with gcc. ... YARV, Python, Perl and PHP have fairly close medians and the boxes are ...
    (comp.lang.ruby)
  • Re: Python for Perl programmers?
    ... > I've read that Ruby is actually more akin to Perl than Python. ... > you're a die-hard Perl user, you may also want to take a look at Ruby. ... Perl programmer will choose a language based on whether or not they can ...
    (comp.lang.python)