[thelist] What prog. language to focus on???

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Thu Feb 8 06:50:31 CST 2001


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Zac wrote:
>> perl is a great language but I find that all it really does, aside from
teaching
>> you how to use reg expressions better than any other language, is teach you
how
>> to program in perl.

>That's true, but knowing how to program in perl makes my life easier
>time and again.

Perl is a *very* useful language for building wee admin tools. fwiw, Interwoven
TeamSite
is a Perl solution.

Ray Hill wrote:
>
> I see a lot of job postings asking for Perl, but the problem with Perl is that
there's more than one way to do everything, so inheriting an existing Perl
script from >someone else is a nightmare (often poorly commented, hard to follow
their version of how to do it, and often easier to rewrite the script from
scratch).  At least, >that's >been my experience...

>+1 - this is _so_ true.

Part of good programming practise is that code should
be well documented, ideally self-documenting in the form
of comments as well as separate documentation.

Cheers
Martin


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