[prog] re the perl course

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 9:53 pm, Sue Stones wrote:
> I am, and its fun.  Though I can see why people with no discipline don't
> like perl!

It really was a joke.  I'm writing a plugin for qpsmtpd in Perl at this very 
moment.  (I think I may have lucked out, as the qpsmtpd code seems well 
written and very clean.)  As far as I can tell, Perl has a significantly 
greater useage than Python (slightly more than twice as many projects on both 
Sourceforge and Freshmeat for example), and certainly seems to have more 
contributed libraries/modules available.  It is certainly a very useful 
language, and I have found writing plugins for qpsmtpd (in Perl) quite fun 
too!

However, I'm a mathematician at heart, rather than a programmer, and I 
consider Python's syntax to be more elegant than Perl's.  Elegance is very 
important to me.

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rasjid Wilcox" <rasjidw at openminddev.net>
> To: <programming at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [prog] re the perl course
>
> > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 4:17 pm, Guru - wrote:
> > > yes, I would also be interested in this perl course, once I finish
>
> learning
>
> > > Python......
> >
> > After learning Python, why would anyone want to learn Perl.  ;-)
> >
> > Rasjid ( ducks ... hoping that jokes are allowed on this list)
> >
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