| rindolf | whitenoyce: CL == Common Lisp. whitenoyce: wikipedia it. jrockway: I like Scheme. jrockway: but I prefer Perl. |
| jrockway | same here |
| rindolf | Perl is more practical. |
| jrockway | if perl didn't exist, i'd use lisp but perl does exist :) |
| tkr | <1 <<<<<< |
| whitenoyce | i like python, but perl is more practical and easier to type |
| jrockway | i can't give up the CPAN or nicities like DBIx::Class and Catalyst |
| rindolf | tkr: you should probably choose a different nick. jrockway: I can't imagine a world without Perl. |
| jrockway | also tried learning python and ruby, but didn't see a point |
| rindolf | jrockway: (Larry Wall)++ |
| jrockway | agreed |
| rindolf | jrockway: I can hack Python. jrockway: Python is easy for a Perl programmer. |
| jrockway | sure, but why bother |
| rindolf | jrockway: only problem is that some of the functions there are different. |
| jrockway | python doesn't have anything that perl doesn't |
| rindolf | And Ruby is sweet. jrockway: yeah. jrockway: often the differences between Perl and Py are tradeoffs. So for example Python's "There's one good way of doing it" makes it boring, but OTOH you can start hacking on existing code more easily. jrockway: you do know of Turing Equivalence, right? |
| whitenoyce | perl -ne 'while (m!<td>(.+?)</td>!g){print $1,"\n"}' < file <-- suhweet! |
| rindolf | whitenoyce: yes. |
| whitenoyce | rindolf, turing equivalence is stupid |
| rindolf | whitenoyce: the perl command line flags are useful. whitenoyce: especially in golfs. |
| jrockway | i agree that turing equivalence is stupid |
| whitenoyce | golfs? |
| rindolf | whitenoyce: well, it's not indicative of how usable a language is. perlbot: golf |
| perlbot | Perl golf competitions at http://terje.perlgolf.org |
| jrockway | real problems are "how do i make something that's maintainable" |
| rindolf | whitenoyce: golf is writing the shortest program. |
| jrockway | "how can i get code working quickly" |