What does Perl/C++/Pornography have in common?

Hi friends,

This may have relavence here as I have seen it recently.

I once watched a porno clip that had a few camera folks filming the same event
but from different directions. Its so sloppily done that the other camera men
get in each others shots (depending on what short your looking at).

This one camera guy in this shot was not filming, his camera (he still had one hand on)
was resting on the ground. He knew the other camera was filming him, he didn't seem to
care about that, he made no attempt to hide his identity. He made an explicit attempt
to not watch the porn scene, he covered his eyes from the porn not the camera.

At the time, this impressed me more than the blazie porn (just *** porn). It impressed
me he appeared to make a distinct effort to not watch the porn.

My last 3 years dealt with Perl, previously it was c++. I recently started a contract to hire
job ($70/hr) doing heavy Ansi c++ (no sdk, well a little). My original impression of the
assignment was of course Perl oriented, I was looking at it as if done from Perl. They never
heard of Perl. I kept my mouth shut. When I first started the work I wanted to press the "$"
key all the time. I wanted to use easy concantenation constructs. Nope, didn't work.

I was looking at C++ through the Perl sunglasses. After a week, the multiple years of
c/c++ bubbled back up and I was right as rain Neo. I was doing member functions, ctors/dtors
in structures. The planets were back in alignment.

Conclusion:

I can't look at Perl code now (except for what I've done) in my current job. I turn my eyes away.
It corrupts my current mental code framework. I'm sure I could switch back (maybe) in a few weeks.
Perl is insidous in that it offers a base of C. I'm sure it didn't have to and could have been in
a different syntactic context and still have been as powerfull.

There is no notion of a pointer in Perl, yet the syntax of Perl is so C like. If anything, Perl
is more akin to languages that use typeless VARIANT like constructs, sprinkled with C like
control items. Passing pointers/references(aliases) in C makes the language close to the machine.
Perl is a camelian, neither close to the machine, nor as elegant.

I don't think I could do fairly heavy Perl after a prolonged period of C/C++ and visa versa.
I would have to look away, depending on which mode I were in, and for how long.

Just my observation folks.
Cheers!

robic0

PS> how ya'll been ??

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