Re: Preferred language?

Hey thanks I'll try to read them (I'm taking modern perl as it seems to be
more direct, though I guessed that only eith the title so I may be off
track).

--Sergio
El 28/3/2015 20:43, "Joel Roth" <[email protected]> escribió:

> Sergio Tortosa Benedito wrote:
> > Hmmm... Didn't knew there was so much effort, I guess I should give Perl
> a
> > try, the fact that I don't like does not mean I won't like it, still from
> > what I have seen I don't it's syntax (namely I don't like C's one).
> >
> > Again I'll give it a try as I would hate making a bad choice and finding
> > time later Perl would have been more appropiate. But I hardly see this
> > happening as I find Perl gives too much power to the developer (having
> > pointers in a script scares the hell out of me).
>
> Hi Sergio,
>
> Perl references are similar to pointers, but not equivalent
> and AFAIK somewhat safer. You generally use references when
> handling complex data structures, such as arrays of arrays.
> Also, when you pass a huge data data structure, it is faster
> to do it by passing a reference than by copying.
>
> do_something(@array)  # copies array
> do_something(\@array) # passes a reference to array
>
> The best references (no pun intended) for perl nowadays are
> Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz, Modern Perl by chromatic,
> Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe. The latter two are free to
> download.
>
> I found references to be much easier conceptually than
> dealing with objects and classes. In fact, perl OO uses
> references to represent objects.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel
>
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> > --Sergio
> > El 28/3/2015 19:36, "Joel Roth" <[email protected]> escribió:
> >
> > > Sergio Tortosa Benedito wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have also heard about Perl for administration, but truth is I don't
> > > like
> > > > it, neither the language nor the stale state it is right now (not
> that I
> > > > have used that much, pretty much only in a subject).
> > >
> > > Well, not liking it sounds like a good reason not to use
> > > it for your own projects. :)
> > >
> > > But Perl isn't stale! Perl 5 is getting regular releases,
> > > and the development mailing list has heavy traffic. The Perl
> > > Foundation is funding ongoing work to maintain and develop
> > > the language. This year we are starting to see more
> > > abilities to integrate perl 5 with the new sister language
> > > referred to as perl 6.
> > >
> > > If anyone wants to know more about recent developments in
> > > the two languages, talks at the recent Fosdem conference are
> > > an excellent resource.
> > >
> > > http://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-perl/
> > >
> > > Perl 6 development has taken time, partly because the
> > > demands of the language features have required a number of
> > > CS advances, notably the ability to handle multiple
> > > pluggable grammars.
> > >
> > > Of course all languages have strengths and weaknesses.
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > >
> > > > --Sergio
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joel Roth
> > >
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