Comments on: Programming Perl Instead of Ruby http://www.mattrobinson.net/2008/07/13/programming-perl-instead-of-ruby/ Nerding Out Since the Distant Future Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: mattr http://www.mattrobinson.net/2008/07/13/programming-perl-instead-of-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 mattr Sun, 23 May 2010 08:47:20 +0000 http://www.mattrobinson.net/?p=30#comment-1566 The Perl community is definitely happy to think about different ways to solve a problem, I just wish sometimes when you ask the best way you didn't get a different answer from every single person :-) Every language has its hackish feeling things that have been bolted on as the language matures, but yeah, Perl has more than it's fair share of those. Hope your work in Perl proves productive. The Perl community is definitely happy to think about different ways to solve a problem, I just wish sometimes when you ask the best way you didn’t get a different answer from every single person :-) Every language has its hackish feeling things that have been bolted on as the language matures, but yeah, Perl has more than it’s fair share of those. Hope your work in Perl proves productive.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.mattrobinson.net/2008/07/13/programming-perl-instead-of-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-1495 Bryan Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:50:41 +0000 http://www.mattrobinson.net/?p=30#comment-1495 I've been a C++ programmer all of my professional life but I've had to write Perl code for the past month. It has been...interesting. At times I've wanted to pull my hair out when trying to debug code. I'm having to implement software applications that are based on a giant Perl framework, and Perl software engineering is really an interesting concept. The following give me the most headaches with Perl code: * Having to put "1;" at the end of a perl module--it just feels very hackish, and it is easy to overlook or forget. * Fighting with accessing arrays when they're stored in objects: do I need $self->{myarray}, or do I need @{self->{myarray}} here? * Exceptions thrown when comparing something to an undef object--Python just handles this more gracefully * There is no easy, one-step way to get a unique set of elements in a list/array. I agree with you about the Perl community, though, they seem to acknowledge the good and bad about this interesting tool. The Python community is quite smug about "the Python way," but the Perl community is always happy to think about different ways to solve a problem. I’ve been a C++ programmer all of my professional life but I’ve had to write Perl code for the past month. It has been…interesting. At times I’ve wanted to pull my hair out when trying to debug code. I’m having to implement software applications that are based on a giant Perl framework, and Perl software engineering is really an interesting concept.

The following give me the most headaches with Perl code:
* Having to put “1;” at the end of a perl module–it just feels very hackish, and it is easy to overlook or forget.
* Fighting with accessing arrays when they’re stored in objects: do I need $self->{myarray}, or do I need @{self->{myarray}} here?
* Exceptions thrown when comparing something to an undef object–Python just handles this more gracefully
* There is no easy, one-step way to get a unique set of elements in a list/array.

I agree with you about the Perl community, though, they seem to acknowledge the good and bad about this interesting tool. The Python community is quite smug about “the Python way,” but the Perl community is always happy to think about different ways to solve a problem.

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