brent timothy saner on 5 Mar 2008 17:45:46 -0800 |
Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:00:22PM -0500, brent saner wrote: >> 2. OMG, WTF is TIMTOWTDI? (acronyms intentional) > > There Is More Than One Way To Do It > >> well, it's not that they don't meet my needs. the problem with >> O'Reilly books is that they're very excellent books, but one tends to >> outgrow them very fast; they sort of lock you in at a certain level >> without fully encouraging analytical processing (which is really the >> whole point of perl ;) > > I'm not sure what you mean by "analytical processing". Isn't the > point of any programming language to facilitate writing programs to > solve problems? > > Walt > i meant moreso the perspective of the scripter, not the script. heh when i say "analytical processing" i meant in terms of "grok, not grep"- processing with your brain, not with your cpu. and the point of perl, i think, is really all about harnessing the potential of a scripting language in the most efficient yet flexible way possible. not making any comment on how well perl accomplishes this (FWIW i think it does a rather fair job), but i just feel that's one of the main tenets of "perl-dom" thank you all for the excellent resources! -- Brent Saner 215.264.0112(cell) http://www.thenotebookarmy.org Bill Gates is to hacking as Sid Vicious was to the Sex Pistols: no talent, everyone hates him, and he's just in it for the fame and money. GPG INFO: pub 1024D/832D950A 2008-01-26 uid Brent Timothy Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> uid Brent Timothy Saner (ACE Technology Group, www.acetechgroup.com) <sanerb@acetechgroup.com> sub 4096g/1C18F61D 2008-01-26 (pgp.mit.edu) FINGERPRINT: 91EC 3B91 17E3 84E8 662A 9911 F2ED 9987 832D 950A Attachment:
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