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Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination?
TheTheologian writes "In his InfoWorld column, Chad Dickerson says 'there is a level of quiet discomfort between the "scripting" versus "programming" factions in some corporate development environments in which I have participated. In some instances, executive-level technology management has held scripting languages in disdain as not being "real" languages for day-to-day problem solving, which has discouraged highly talented scripters on staff from practicing their craft. In such an environment, scripters are relegated to the lower ranks ... ' He goes on to say that some companies will assign Java and C++ programmers tasks that take them weeks but could be done by Perl or Python programmers in a few hours. Is it true that some companies are so overcome with code bias they'd assign weeks of unnecessary work rather than give it to the scripting untouchables?"
Yes. Because their fg8s.
Weakest...post...ever. Seriously, dude, are you like 12 years old or something? Sheesh.
Wannabe a programmer? Just learn how to cut and paste CPAN perl code.
Learn to cut and paste or learn to program. Perl is for the cut and pasters.
So many perl support mailing lists are cluttered with questions like where can i find a program that sorts this or writes that?...
Cut and pasting is not programming.
I want to maintain complete control over my programming environment. C rocks. Perl sucks.
There is an abundance of perl code available.
If your desire is to become a cut and paster.
Learn to program
or
Learn to cut and paste perl.
Ask a c programmer what his program really does. He can tell you.
Ask a perl paster what his program really does. Chances are he might be able to recite perl syntax.
If you are one of the masses, go with perl.
Its easy and requires less work.
Wannabe a programmer or a paster?
Its your call...
A good programmer who knows his perl may be able to replace a lengthy C/C++ program with a few lines of perl, but what happens when that programmer moves on?
To the untrained eye, perl looks like line noise, and may be rather difficult to maintain. Admittedly, perl is rather popular, but suppose that a programmer decides that lisp, haskell, or intercal is apropriate to the job at hand?
you wanna pick up somebody's perl code (or even your own) six months later?
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
HAND
Ron Harwood you evil nasty motherfucker. Shit piss I just went to your PHP based tradewars blacknova page to check it out, even bookmarked it, read a little of the faq and THE MOTHERFUCKER TRIED TO INSTALL GATOR ON MY ASS.
/.'er would have a drive by GATOR installation on his fucking front page.
/. that I hate you. I honestly can't believe how much you suck dick - you are right in there with the telemarketers and spammers - even worse because you come into our home here on /. and try to join our conversations. Pigfucker.
Dude you completely suck major dick.
If any spiderbots are looking, please explain to harwoodr@linux.ca that GATOR IS FUCKING BULLSHIT SCUMWARE. I can not believe that a
Now I have to figure out how to tell
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
As someone who's spent several years managing programmers, I can tell you this: the number one cause of bad programs is poor programmers. I find that good programmers write good code, regardless of the language. And bad programmers write bad code, also regardless of the language.
Now, to give you some ammo for your religious war: Strong typing is for weak minds. If your friend doesn't have the mental decipline to keep track of his types, he's welcome to use the Java compilier as a crutch to do it for him. If you know what you're doing, you don't need any smart-assed compiler trying to tell you what you're doing.
I hate it when I make a joke and I get modded "+5 insightful". Mod the stupid comments "funny", not "insightful", pleas
First, I would suggest that [long winded arrogance] means you either didn't listen to or didn't understand what your friend was saying. And PHP's short path to hell is not loose types, but its' (early versions, mind you, and therefore most of the installed base) over-reliance on GLOBAL FUCKING VARIABLES. This can be the short path to hell with Perl, too, which is why we have the "use strict" pragma, as well as locals.