[ILUG-Social] Perl is a pool language

[Smelly Pooh]

In reply to Niall O Broin's flatulent wordings, 
 
> I'm a Perl fan, but this can be all too true. I've just had to revisit a 300
> line (using a few hundred lines more in a library, but they haven't changed)
> program and my head hurts. In fairness to Perl, the fault is mine. But if I'd
> written the same program in C it would have been much bigger, source wise,
> and if I'd written it as badly, I'd never have understood it again.

In this day and age there is little excuse to write apps in C, except maybe
for performance reasons

> > TCL and Python are much cleaner scripting languages IMHO, 
> 
> Whatever about Python (because I don't know it at all - I can't bring myself
> to look at a language where white space is significant)

I definitely prefer them, code tends to be neater and you come to realise that
semi-colons and brackets for blocks aren't really necessary, although I'd
prefer the whitespace approach taken by Haskell over Python, it allows a lot
more leeway with indent styles)