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Re: Greetings: Me & Linux
Chen Shapira wrote:
> 1) because perl doesn't connect well to other languages
Ever seen SWIG ? Ever seen how perl embeds into other structures ?
Quite easily for anyone willing to do some reading.
> 2) because perl is over-complicated for almost any well-defined task
> (especially the syntax)
>
A matter of taste, I am sure. For example, one of the things I most like
about perl is the freedom to write the same statement in a number of
ways; some prettier, some less pretty, some even poetic.
> 3) Ilya - you *have* to know perl. you can't be a sysadmin without it.
Ah! You can be a sysadmin without perl. You just can't be a good one
;))))
--i
(p.s. - Python is cute.)
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