Random Perl ... rant

[Iain Barnett]

On 3 Apr 2008, at 11:28 pm, Johan Lindström wrote:
>
> At 15:55 2008-04-03, David Cantrell wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:37:18PM +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
>> > it doesn't do perl
>>
>> Then what the fuck was the point of mentioning it?
>
> Blub...

The words "money" and "mouth" come to mind.

I can think of one good reason to use perl instead of C# - C# is not  
for scripting. It gets more difficult after that, but perhaps you've  
got some better ones?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? 
test=all&lang=csharp&lang2=perl   [1]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C 
+perl&ctab=0&geo=GB&date=all&sort=0	[2]
http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C 
+perl&ctab=0&geo=GB&geor=all&date=mtd&sort=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29	[3]


Iain

[1] check out the full list of languages, too.
[2] Perl doesn't need better PR, or a 'killer app', or less sigils,  
or to learn from others - it's not dying! ;)
[3] It's influenced by Haskell, too ;)