[prog] re the perl course

Sue Stones suzo at bigpond.net.au
Sat Feb 8 00:27:38 EST 2003


My reply wasn't meant to be too serious either.  Apart from anything else
I've only done a few of hours of perl. (about 5)

One thing I found important when switching from python to perl is
semi-colons.  You get some very obscure error messages when they are left
off.

sue

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rasjid Wilcox" <rasjidw at openminddev.net>
To: "Sue Stones" <suzo at bigpond.net.au>; <programming at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [prog] re the perl course


> 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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