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February 27, 2007 Every additional day that my life appears to revolve entirely around the Perl programming language in some form or another, my hate for it grows stronger. I yearn for strong typed variables and functions with inflexible parameter lists. With the recent onset of my chronic insomnia I am also increasingly finding myself pulling all-nighters. This always ends badly, with my daytime performance rapidly degrading to the point that I take a health day off of work and spend it in bed recovering. On the plus side, the hours after midnight are actually quite pleasant for the mind-numbing Perl rewriting and documentation tasks that make up so much of my day. They're just about the right mental intensity for my tortured mind.
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Michele wrote:
Luang Pu responded,
"That shows that you've missed the point. You're told to stop thinking, but all you do is think about stopping your thinking, so how can the actual stopping come about? Get rid of all your ignorance about stopping to think. Abandon your thoughts about stopping your thinking, and that'll be the end of the matter."
Posted on 2007-02-27 01:18:08
Phil! wrote:
There's nothing wrong with dynamic typing. (Or, some people might contend that there is, but don't let Perl dissuade you, in the same way that strict typing people advocate trying ML or Haskell and not letting, say, Java prejudice you against strict typing.)
Perl's problem is that it's accreted features over the years and the result is about as attractive as a hairball. Python is a dynamically-typed language that is a lot cleaner. Personally, I like Ruby; it's also dynamically typed, is nicely object-oriented, but has a bunch of useful things stolen from Perl.
Posted on 2007-02-27 10:51:40
Rob B. wrote:
You dislike perl for the wrong reasons. The reasons you state are reasons to LOVE Perl. Your opinions have been deemed unworthy. ;)
Posted on 2007-02-28 18:00:18