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> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> cc: mjd@plover.com
> Subject: Prescod revisited
> Organization: Plover Systems
> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 22:34:28 -0500
> From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
>
>
> I took notice of Prescod today because he put up a web page with a
> link to one of my web pages:
>
> http://www.prescod.net/perl/whynot.html says
>
> Perl literature is littered with apologies for why this stuff
> is so difficult but for a new programmer, excuses don't add up
> to much!
>
> and links to my page explaining perl reference syntax. I'm rather
> vexed, but I'd be a lot more vexed if Perl reference syntax didn't
> actually suck.
>
> But gosh, his page is annoying.
>
>
> Here are the properties that make the Perl language difficult
> to learn:
>
> Many features are in the core language rather than in named
> modules or classes
>
> That may be one of the stupidest and most pointless points I've
> ever had to encounter in a technical discussion; it's not even *wrong*.
>
> The depressing thing about this guy is that he hasn't done the
> slightest bit of research; he doesn't even pretend to have
> investigated Perl. Here's what follows:
>
> If you want to understand someone's code, and the code uses
> Python's "re" module, you look up "re" in the manual. Where does
> one start in trying to decipher this Perl code: [...]
>
>
> I guess beginner programmers like Paul Prescod have to much trouble
> finding the perlre man page.
>
>
> Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com
> I am boycotting Amazon. See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for details.
>
>
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