Perl class at the JC

[Mike Wong]

Or maybe he's invoking the Pathalogically Eclectic Rubbish Lister form
of Perl. In which case, I'd say that the course description very much
qualifies.

On the other hand, it leads me to wonder who would be interested in CGI
programming post-web boom. My own suspicions (backed by a recent
experience) leads me to believe that the candidate will likely be an MIS
majour. IMHO, MIS majours are interested in CGI from a reduce-IT-costs
business point-of-view and not interested in the technology or the
culture (or such minour things as implementation and accuracy). Their
only interest in technology is that some of these poor souls believe
that they will be qualified to manage technical people after taking a
few courses.

I suspect that the description has been written to appeal to such
people, who don't like reading and thinking, but do like telling others
what technology to use. I wonder what this means for the JC's agenda?

- m.

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:51, Kevin Bingham wrote:
> DESCRIPTION
> <snip>
> PERL is a programming language for writing CGI applications. It's main 
> strength is that it doesn't have any unnecessary warnings or strictures. It 
> is a direct descendent of Perl, a programming language which was used 
> mainly by programmers. However, the original language required too much 
> reading and thinking and so PERL was developed as a language which was more 
> in tune with the requirements of the Internet age.
> </snip>
> 
> <ROTFLMAO>
> 
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> At 02:36 PM 1/5/2004 -0800, Tom Anderson (Thomas H) wrote:
> >Perhaps he intends to use the Inline::PERL module.
> >
> >Check out
> >http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Acme-Inline-PERL-0.01/PERL.pm
> >
> >"It should work perfectly the first time" -toma
> >
> >-Tom
> >
> >Gene Boggs wrote:
> >
> > > > CIS 54.31  Perl & CGI
> > > > 6675    T        6:00pm- 8:00pm         KIRKPATRICK
> > > >
> > > > Description:    An introduction to PERL (program extraction report
> > > > language) which is used to create common gateway interface (CGI) scripts
> > > > for use in Internet web sites. Emphasis will be placed on theory as it
> > > > relates to practice. Students will create original Perl scripts from the
> > > > Internet which they will revise. Lab emphasis will be placed on
> > > > incorporating the Perl scripts into an existing web site.  (Credit course
> > > > for grade or CR/NC)
> > >
> > > A couple problems here:
> > >
> > > 1) PERL is not written in ALL CAPS because..
> > >
> > > 2) ..it is not an acronym and hasn't been quite a few years now.
> > >
> > > 3) Also that is the wrong acronym anyway.  It's actually "Practical
> > > extraction and reporting language".
> > >
> > > This makes me wonder about the quality of such a course when the
> > > description is not even close with respect to such simple little
> > > things.
> > >
> > > -Gene Boggs
> > > Software engineer and pedantic Bastard
-- 
Mike Wong <mike_w3 at pacbell.net>