Exegesis 4 Out

BorrisYeltsin writes "perl.com has Exegesis 4 from the Damian, in repsonse to Larry's latest Apocalypse. This installment covers news of the new flow and block control changes, fully integrated exceptions and some other cool stuff!"

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New to Perl

[Tadrith]

Just thought I'd place a little comment in from a newbie to Perl, seeing as a lot of people are discussing the readability of Perl.

First off, I've been writing a database application with SQL Server 2000 and Visual Basic for the last year. Recently, I had to do some nasty work with some text documents. I understand the Visual Basic isn't the most popular language, but it has it's place... parsing text documents isn't it.

Long story short, I decided to try using Perl for it, instead, seeing as Perl is very well suited for the task. It only took me about 4 hours to complete what I needed to do with Perl, and that includes learning the language. So far I've found it very intuitive and it's certainly not any more difficult to read than anything else. If anything, I think Perl simply requires the reader know a bit more about the language, which isn't a bad thing, in my mind.

Maybe I had a better time with it since I've already done extensive work in C/C++, but I still think it's quite useful, and certainly not unreadable if the programmer takes the time to program it properly.