A Computer Scientist

I have tried to learn Perl 5 times maybe since I was sophomore. I tried Perl just because perl seems to be the real geek’s language but python is just for the novice. Yes.. it was just might distorted thought when I was young. I tried so many books and articles ah! even perl 6, which is the worsted implementation ever. Did you see perl 6 performance and specification? adding 100 numbers took over one second.(otherwise, the design itself is much fancier than perl 5, but who is implementing?)

This time, I tried perl to substitute bash, sed, awk and others, but failed. I can’t find any forte except regular expression integrated statements. Python’s Regexp is terrible to write, long, dirty match & group, slow re module .. I just want to use // for my regexp. Other than regexp, I can’t find any advantages of perl at all, so I will never ever try to learn perl again. Instead, try to find other languages like D, C# or Java.