* tony summerfelt <snowzone5 / hotmail.com> [0152 15:52]:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:03:43 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >perl otoh, goes very wrong, 
> 
> and i think perl6 is going to be very wronger...i wish larry wall
> would stop listening to the python complains about perl...they aren't
> gonna use perl6 anyway...and from the sounds of it a lot of current
> perl programmers won't either...
> 
> the perl oo always felt tacked on to me...most of the perl code i
> write is perl4 anyway...
> 
> > it provides many many ways
> >of doing the same thing. and none of them sensible :)
> 
> they make sense to a perl programmer :)

*A* perl programmer, yes.

Trouble is, it usually doesn't make as much sense to all the other perl
programmers. Or the same programmer in nine months time.

I quite liked perl until I stayed in the same job for more than 2 years,
and had to maintain those scripts I threw at the interpreter when they
stuck.

I've found ruby is more productive in the short term, so I get to spend
some time building maintenance into the script and save time in the long
term too.

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