Re: perl should be improved and perl6
- From: John Bokma <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Apr 2008 17:51:13 GMT
"Gordon Etly" <get@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Bokma wrote:
"V.Ronans" <v_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dr.Ruud wrote:
jm schreef:
perl [...] is poorly typed
By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?)
Honestly, you know full well he was talking about the programming
language that pertains to this here news group, so feign ignorance?
I mean why is this even such an issue? Other places where people
talk about programming languages don't seem to care if it's all
caps,
There are already plenty of people who think PERL is an acronym (it's
not), so "we" like to avoid PERL.
Moreover, Perl is the programming language, and perl is the
executable, hence there is a good reason to be case sensitive. Hence,
perl [...] is poorly typed seems to refer to the executable, hence
Dr. Ruud's question.
As someone else pointed out, in many other groups centered around a
particular programming language, no one pays this kind of attention of
people like your self seem to.
I am sure that in a Java related group people will post remarks if
someone mixes up javac with java (executables).
Also, I am sure that in C related groups people start to ask questions
if you constantly talk about x is an integer and that you have problems
with it.
Second, why is it people like yourself
can never give a straight answer as to why it is of such high
importance?
Because programming is about being very specific and exact. Details do
matter. Calling a warning and error is another classic one (or vice
versa), or just stating that "my PERL program crashed, please help".
If someone is a good programmer with the Perl language, does
it really make a difference how they spell it as long as they know
what they are doing?
IMO a good Perl programmer knows the difference between Perl and perl,
and knows when to use which one.
I mean you have people like Abigail who use their own
quote characters, Uri who can't use a bloody shift key, etc,
Yes, and me, who has English as a second language. As long as all those
people don't write ambiguous statements related with the problem/answer,
I don't have a problem with it.
and you're
worried about how some random bloke cases the word/term Perl?
Yes. Look at the subject: perl should be improved. I read that as: the
perl executable should be improved. I have very little to say on that
subject (I am not a perl programmer/hacker)
However, if the subject is: Perl should be improved, I might like to
read it, because, as a Perl programmer, I have my own ideas.
--
John
http://johnbokma.com/perl/
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