Comments on: I Hate Perl

By: tf23

tf23 — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:33:26 +0000

Bah. You dislike perl, or do you dislike CPAN?

Just because you don't know how to install perl (or, apparently upgrade it) on your machine - don't fault the language.

By: 4-Year Blogiversary | NSLog();

4-Year Blogiversary | NSLog(); — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:16:50 +0000

[...] Today is my four-year "blogiversary." The very first post I made back in 2002 was called "I Hate Perl." I did then, and I still do now (well, I don't really hate it, I just prefer not to use it). [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:36:06 +0000

Don't use perl for anything. There is never a reason too. Anything you could do with perl you can do much simplier with some other language (Python, Ruby, etc.).

It is not your "preconceived notions" that are getting in the way. It's the horrible (lack of) language design. It is a hack fromt he ground up. Even having a program consist of more then one file is a hack (that is why if you make some other source file you have to put a "1;" at then end: because file inclusion is a hack).

They say "you can do anything in Perl" and it's mostly true. But you can do anything in assembler language as well. The question is: why work so hard? Just use a language that does everything so much easier.

By: FD

FD — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:19:44 +0000

perl makes baby jesus cry

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New Year Resolutions | NSLog(); — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:05:11 +0000

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ExpressionEngine Again | NSLog(); — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:21:38 +0000

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By: HELP ME PLEASE!!!

HELP ME PLEASE!!! — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:34:39 +0000

I have been trying for quite some time now to get a search form on my site (that searches a database...data.db, and returns a list of titles and descriptions with the titles linking to the relevant page)

every place i look for cgi/perl info to do this all i find is search.cgi and a search form (search.htm) that look like they should work together. i put the files in the correct locations and everything...

what does this: #!/usr/bin/perl mean?

i don't have a folder like that hosted on my website (and there is no filename listed in that line...)

so actually...to the point... i have no clue what i'm talking about and any help to get a database search going that returns results and links would be appreciated A TON!

By: Caspar

Caspar — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:23:59 +0000

I agree. It probably is my lack of knowledge that I find it strange to learn perl. All the tutorials start with, type

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Hello World\n";

But there is no gui or promptline. And what is even more strange. There is no interface that will save the .pl or .cgi file for you. I am puzzled.

Maybe I need a tutorial for retards to begin with.

By: Perly Gates | NSLog();

Perly Gates | NSLog(); — Sun, 11 May 2003 03:22:28 +0000

My first ever entry was called I Hate Perl. I don't really hate Perl, but man, sometimes I'm just not a big fan. The CLI...