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- From: jtv2j@brunelleschi.cs.virginia.edu (John Viega)
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- In-Reply-To: yml@radix.net's message of 11 Feb 1996 05:40:53 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 17:00:04 GMT
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- In article <4fjvh5$k83@news1.radix.net> yml@radix.net (root) writes:
- > John Viega (jtv2j@garnet.cs.virginia.edu) wrote:
- > : implementing others difficult, that I would hardly expect any language
- > : to be all things to all people. However, I think that it is quite
- > : unfortunate that the languages that see the most use and support today
- > : cater to the beginning programmer not at all.
- >
- > Why limit a lifetime of professional programming convenience by optimizing
- > the design of a language for the first few months of a learning curve?
- >
- > It's like tutorial books vs. refernce books. Learning Perl in 21 days is
- > going to be useful to you for, oh, about 21 days, yet the "advanced"
- > terse "difficult to understand" Perl reference will be useful for a
- > professional eternity.
-
- There is no need to sacrifice power for ease of use and learnability.
- There are a handful of languages at least as powerful as Perl, and
- several times more readable.
-
- While you may fancy yourself a good enough programmer that you can
- code in Perl as fast as anything, Perl has really shown itself to be a
- "write only" language. While you may not agree, I think that the more
- people who can read my programs, the better. I don't see why someone
- should need to be an experienced to expert programmer just to be able
- to make some sense of my code.
-
- John
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- |John Viega "Non-structurally equivolent types in C |
- |rust@virginia.edu are polymorphic vis-a-vis their common |
- |http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jtv2j/ entity, the core dump." |
- |University of Virginia --George Williams |
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