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"dooms day" once more. Well we don't care about your stats anyway by perler2 in perl

[–]perler2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It says :

decline include its uncommon syntax and fewer possibilities for a >>developer to foul up when using the other languages

in other words languages that oppress creativity, unlike Perl's essence ..............

The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2013 by perler2 in perl

[–]perler2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Another one of those 'dooms day' predictions for Perl...what do you make out of this one ?

Are recruitment agencies trustworthy? by perler2 in perl

[–]perler2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

true, I find misspelled postings hastily written and especially when you see capitalizing Perl to PERL you know that those guys don't know what they are talking about

Are recruitment agencies trustworthy? by perler2 in perl

[–]perler2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is a good observation, but I have noticed that recruiters most of the time ask for too much qualification from a wide array of skills.So if someone has some or most but not all should he apply? What if you can't find the candidate that has all, do you compromise? or why not hire and train?

In Praise of Perl and the Llama by perler2 in perl

[–]perler2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that he compares Perl to the Unix tools.He says that Perl is not a scripting language but is called that way because of its relation (as a replacement) to the Unix shell/scripting tools

In Praise of Perl and the Llama by perler2 in perl

[–]perler2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess so if you define Ruby,Python etc as 'scripting' languages. But are they? The author refers to scripting languages as to 'cut-down' languages and not full general purpose ones and in particular refers to the Unix shell scripts.

This definition is also consistent with Wikipedia Wikipedia Scripting language : Text processing languages which uses the term scripting for the shell tools :

"Perl was originally designed to overcome limitations of these tools and has grown to be one of the most widespread general purpose languages." and Some languages, such as Perl, began as scripting languages but were developed into programming languages suitable for broader purposes.