[sf-perl] ugh another knock on perl

Philip J. Hollenback philiph at pobox.com
Fri Jan 6 14:41:11 PST 2012


I agree, it's a terrible example (and several commenters on the article
point that out).  Even though I haven't written any C in 10 years or so
I still cringe every time I see one of those.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Kevin Frost wrote:
> And of course his example of Perl is this:
> 
>    for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
>    }
> 
> I can never tell whether "int" is random syntax or whether I'm speaking
> the wrong $LANGUAGE.
> 
> 
> On Jan 6, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
> 
> > That stupid study about how perl is worse than random syntax is popping
> > up all over the place:
> > 
> > http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665735/why-arent-computer-programming-languages-designed-better
> > --  
> > Philip J. Hollenback
> > philiph at pobox.com
> > www.hollenback.net
> > 
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