You Used Perl to Write WHAT?! 307
Esther Schindler writes "Developers spend a lot of time telling managers, 'Let me use the tool that's appropriate for the job' (cue the '...everything looks like a nail' meme here). But rarely do we enumerate when a language is the right one for a particular job, and when it's a very, very wrong choice. James Turner, writing for CIO.com, identifies five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that... well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? This is the first article in a series that will examine what each language is good at, and for which tasks it's just plain dumb. Another article is coming RSN about JavaScript, and yet another for PHP... with more promised, should these first articles do well."
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According to the article.. (Score:5, Funny)
Wait...there are ways to use perl in a non-obfuscated fashion!?
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Re:is your company weak? (Score:4, Funny)
Besides, complaining about having too much work while browsing Slashdot really is foolish.
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Re:I wrote a BASIC interpreter (Score:4, Funny)
When to use Perl? (Score:5, Funny)
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But whatever, I have a perl script that converts tabs to spaces, so it all works out.
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Ask not for whom the whoosh whooshes - it whooshes for thee.
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Re:When to use Perl? (Score:2, Funny)
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They forgot #6 (Score:3, Funny)
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It's not that rare.
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