in reply to Re: Re: Learning Perl as a First (programming) language
in thread Learning Perl as a First (programming) language
I'm not impressed by your example of doing little things. Even in
C (which I don't recommend as a first language), it's easy to do -
in fact, it translates almost token for token. It's like saying
a Ferrari is a good car to learn driving with because it's easy
to turn on the headlights.
You say that Java isn't your idea of a lightweight language. I don't disagree with that, but hopefully you aren't suggesting that Perl is. Perl is far from being lightweight language, in all aspects. It has a syntax hardly anyone, including wizards with more than five years of experience, can fully remember, and it has a very wide range of primitives. I doubt there's a language with a significant user base out there that has such a complex function to open a file. It was only yesterday that on perlmonks people were confused about 1-arg open.
Abigail
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Re: Re: Learning Perl as a First (programming) language
by talexb (Chancellor) on Aug 02, 2002 at 13:54 UTC | |
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 02, 2002 at 14:10 UTC | |
by talexb (Chancellor) on Aug 02, 2002 at 17:46 UTC | |
by sauoq (Abbot) on Aug 02, 2002 at 19:31 UTC |
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