Camels & snakes

[Giannis Economou]

At 12:39 ìì 21/9/2002, you wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:55:28 +0300 Panayotis Prokopiou 
><pprok at softlab.ece.ntua.gr> wrote:
>...
>sovara tora, to megalitero mou provlima me tin Perl einai to gnosto se 
>olous (kai kala) proterima tis perl: ``There is more than one way to do 
>it''. Otan loipon isxiei kati tetoio, ONTOS to idio prama to kanoun me 
>diaforous tropous. Den akolou8eitai ena standard coding scheme me afto ton 
>tropo, pou (emena toulaxiston) me odigei se sigxiseis.
>
>Isos vevaia oi experienced programmers afto na to xoun sini8isei, alla ego 
>otan ksekinisa mperdevomoun poli epeidi ena prama evlepa kai ginotan me 
>100+2 tropous kai anarotiomoun ti skata kanei.
>...

Polloi ektimoun kai anagnwrizoun thn Perl, alla to "there is more than one 
way to do it" den tous paei (logw ths sygxishs pou mporei na prokalesei).
H eleytheria sthn Perl einai pantou (kai h eleytheria mporei na prokalesei 
xaos, alla den einai logos na thn periorizoume aytos). Gia paradeigma: 
anaferthike to data hiding... Sthn Perl les: "Ayto einai to spiti mou kai 
ayto einai to ypnodwmatio mou kai _tha ithela_ na mh mpainei kaneis sto 
ypnodwmatio mou..." kai den les: "_Apagoreyw_ se opoiondhpote na mpei sto 
ypnodwmatio mou, vazw syrmatoplegma kai 2-3 bravous na fylane kai an kanei 
kaneis pws anoigei thn porta thn patise"...

Sto http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html o L. Wall anaferetai 
kai se ayto pou ipothike sto thread, oti "h Perl einai pio dyskolh, alla 
mporeis me ena mikro subset ths na arxiseis na douleveis"... 
(xarakthristiko kai twn glwsswn pou milane oi anthrwpoi...)
Quote apo ayto:
>We don't expect a native German speaker to use the same subset of English 
>as a native Mandarin speaker. Similarly, we don't look down on people for 
>using subsets of Perl. There are certainly enough of them. You can write 
>Perl programs that resemble sed, or awk, or C, or Lisp, or Python. This is 
>Officially Okay in Perl culture. By way of contrast, try writing in the C 
>subset of C++ and they'll make a laughingstock of you.

Giannis