I just spent three days in great
Advanced Perl Programming
class taught by the
Anderson Software Group.
This was the best class I've taken in a long time.
One of the most satisfying things to do at work
is to develop a well-crafted program (usually in Perl)
and see it working smoothly to automate my own or someone else's work.
The class exposed me to things I'd always wanted to know about Perl, including Object-Oriented Perl,
GUI building, and interfacing to databases, networks and C programs.
Great stuff!
I'm hearing rumblings that Python is a "better Perl", designed
from scratch for object-oriented programming.
I guess it lacks that Perl syntax that can make a program look like
hieroglyphics?
This sounds like the next language to learn.
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
yup - I'm a big fan of Python. It is designed to be more explicit (no $_ for example) and therefore more easier to maintain.
Again, one of the biggest criticisms of python is that it is whitespace-aware, but frankly, I didnt mind it too much.
1 comment:
yup - I'm a big fan of Python. It is designed to be more explicit (no $_ for example) and therefore more easier to maintain.
Again, one of the biggest criticisms of python is that it is whitespace-aware, but frankly, I didnt mind it too much.
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