Perl is, without a doubt, the absolute last programming language you'll ever need.
Give up on pointers -- they're an archaic holdover from assembler. If I have to think about memory addresses, I might as well toggle the program into the front panel in hex.
Memory management? Don't make me laugh. The only thing that causes more bugs in software than forgetting to free resources is walking into memory you're not supposed to use (see "pointers" above).
OO is a failure. Sorry, I know this akin to telling some people that God is dead (or that God never existed). It's true and whining won't change it. OO promised code reuse and it never happened. Programmers trying to make reusable classes all went over deadline and were fired. They were replaced by quick-and-dirty hackers who understood that management just wanted to get the darn thing shipped. The only code reuse going on is open source coders who snag each other's routines for their own projects. That's a good thing.
I'm tired of hearing the "Perl is a scripting language" whiners. At this point, a "scripting" language will do 99% of what needs to be done with a computer. The operating systems are written. The applications are written. All we do now is glue them together to get the data we want. If it's harder than that, you're probably reinventing a wheel.
"Enterprise systems?" Yeah, right. Most of those enterprise systems are aging COBOL and C driven junkers that should be replaced with multiple x86 boxen running Linux or BSD. They're cheap, reliable, and you can find people to work on them who don't cost an arm and a leg. If you think it takes more than that, you're just wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Perl is, without a doubt, the absolute last programming language you'll ever need.
Give up on pointers -- they're an archaic holdover from assembler. If I have to think about memory addresses, I might as well toggle the program into the front panel in hex.
Memory management? Don't make me laugh. The only thing that causes more bugs in software than forgetting to free resources is walking into memory you're not supposed to use (see "pointers" above).
OO is a failure. Sorry, I know this akin to telling some people that God is dead (or that God never existed). It's true and whining won't change it. OO promised code reuse and it never happened. Programmers trying to make reusable classes all went over deadline and were fired. They were replaced by quick-and-dirty hackers who understood that management just wanted to get the darn thing shipped. The only code reuse going on is open source coders who snag each other's routines for their own projects. That's a good thing.
I'm tired of hearing the "Perl is a scripting language" whiners. At this point, a "scripting" language will do 99% of what needs to be done with a computer. The operating systems are written. The applications are written. All we do now is glue them together to get the data we want. If it's harder than that, you're probably reinventing a wheel.
"Enterprise systems?" Yeah, right. Most of those enterprise systems are aging COBOL and C driven junkers that should be replaced with multiple x86 boxen running Linux or BSD. They're cheap, reliable, and you can find people to work on them who don't cost an arm and a leg. If you think it takes more than that, you're just wrong.