use Perl

• blosxom style (Score:1)

  by koschei (147)

  And blosxom is not really the most lucid code around.
  
  It's full of some very 'unclean' code. It works, which
  is great. I don't intend to disparage Rael, but his
  code is somewhat crufty and is also (slightly) hindered
  by it having to work on early perls, not just 5.6+.
  
  I keep meaning to do some tidyups and submit them to
  Rael, including having it able to run under
  Apache::Registry, but never get around to it.
  

  --
    ---ict / Spoon
• Algol-like? (Score:2)

  by TorgoX (1933)

  "why Algol-like languages are far superior to Perl".

  I thought Perl is an Algol-like language. It's been ages since I heard the term "Algol-like", but I always took it to mean syntax mostly like C or Algol, with blocks with statements inside, as opposed to very different syntaxes like Lisp or Forth, or the mush that is COBOL syntax.
  • Re:Algol-like? (Score:1)

    by gav (2710)

    I've always thought Pascal more Algol-like than C style languages. I guess Java is like Algol [erols.com] to the same degree that English is like Latin, that is after you drink several beers and squint.
• followups (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  reading his followups [rc3.org] It seems he still doesn't get it.

  blosxom is a drop-in perl script you certainly can't use it represent a project in which a novice is taking part.

  Worse he misses the point about abstracting code in functions - essentially your senior or experienced developers will encapsulate harder code and the the junior or novice developers will use the API's provided.

  This means the senior developers can use perl to full effect while juniors can be productive with simpler perl.

  --
  
  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;