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On the future of Perl 5On the future of Perl 5Posted Dec 3, 2008 22:05 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by dlang Parent article: On the future of Perl 5
Of course. I doubt there is a language that does not have a pothole or two to fall into for programmers coming from other languages. Niner's "++i" selection was a bit cherry-picked in my opinion. I wonder how Perl's "potholes per mile" figure compares to Python's? I've programmed in both, neither having been my first language, and I have a strong opinion on that matter.
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On the future of Perl 5 Posted Dec 3, 2008 22:41 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
in my experiance with perl, if you try a construct from just about any language it will probably work, if it doesn't it will give you a syntax error (whitespace being significant is an exception)
this is both a blessing and a curse.
it's great for writing programs (especially when they really are one use), but it means that if you are looking at programs that other people wrote and have not done any thinking about code style you can run into constructs from many different languages.
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