How many of you here from C/C++

[phal]

Hi All

I want to know some idea from you all esp professional programmer.

1- Are you from C/C++?
2- What reason make you go for Perl?
3- Do you still program in C/C++?
4- Do you wish to have more features that let you program in C/C++ as
you do in Perl?
5- Perl perfect for many tasks, like Regular Expression, CGI, hash,
array etc,
Do you still using in in the near future? if yes why, if no why
not?
6- How you feel when you need to design a very big system under Perl,
do you have any plan, such as you need to modify your code after
another Perl version, such as Perl 4.0 to the current version?


Thank you.

 

[xhoster]

Hi All

I want to know some idea from you all esp professional programmer.

I don't have extrasensory perception. Am I still allowed?

1- Are you from C/C++?

No, I'm from Michigan. But I have coded in C before Perl.

2- What reason make you go for Perl?

Originally, because that is the language of the project which I joined.

3- Do you still program in C/C++?
Occasionally.

4- Do you wish to have more features that let you program in C/C++ as
you do in Perl?

Could you clarify this? If I want to program as I do in Perl, I
program in Perl.

5- Perl perfect for many tasks, like Regular Expression, CGI, hash,
array etc,
Do you still using in in the near future? if yes why, if no why
not?

Is this a cut and paste error, or was it intended to be non-sequitor?
Yes, I plan to be using Perl in the near future. Because it is often
the best tool for the job.

6- How you feel when you need to design a very big system under Perl,
do you have any plan, such as you need to modify your code after
another Perl version, such as Perl 4.0 to the current version?

Sorry, that is not coherent.

Xho

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Sorry, that is not coherent.

That's par for the course I am afraid.

Sinan

 

[Eric J. Roode]

Hi All

I want to know some idea from you all esp professional programmer.

1- Are you from C/C++?

Yes, I was primarily a C programmer when I learned Perl.

2- What reason make you go for Perl?

It was required for a job I took on at the time.

3- Do you still program in C/C++?

Only when absolutely necessary. Which means: when Perl's speed is not
adequate for the task at hand. Which is surprisingly rare.

4- Do you wish to have more features that let you program in C/C++ as
you do in Perl?

Absolutely. I would like to see a low-level, C-like language that would:

1. Allow functions to know how many arguments it was called with,
and what type each is.
2. Have a robust, hierarchical, extensible, exception-handling
mechanism.
3. Have labelled loops. Also Perl's 'redo' functionality.
4. Have simpler datatypes. I should be able to declare a variable
"int>=32" and get an integer that is at least 32 bits, or a
compiler error message that indicates that such is not available.
5. Have run-time bounds-checking and garbage collection. YES, I
know that that is additional overhead, which is anathema to C
(and to a lesser degree, C++), but it would wipe out all those
stupid buffer-overrun security holes we see every month.
6. A broader, more complete, more updated standard library. C
should not limit itself to the way Unix was in 1972.

And yes, I know that many of the above are addressed in C#.

5- Perl perfect for many tasks, like Regular Expression, CGI, hash,
array etc,
Do you still using in in the near future? if yes why, if no why
not?

Perl is perfect for many, many tasks. Just about anything involving
string manipulation or generation, quick-and-dirty tasks, file handling,
pattern matching. Lots of things.

6- How you feel when you need to design a very big system under Perl,
do you have any plan, such as you need to modify your code after
another Perl version, such as Perl 4.0 to the current version?

Incompatible releases of Perl are fairly rare. Even the move from 4.36
to 5.0 wasn't particularly traumatic, and I was in charge of a moderate-
sized codebase at the time.


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[robic0]

Hi All

I want to know some idea from you all esp professional programmer.
hmmm, esp
1- Are you from C/C++? yes
2- What reason make you go for Perl? esp
3- Do you still program in C/C++? yes
4- Do you wish to have more features that let you program in C/C++ as
you do in Perl? yes
5- Perl perfect for many tasks, like Regular Expression, CGI, hash,
array etc, debatable
Do you still using in in the near future? if yes why, if no why
not? job related
6- How you feel when you need to design a very big system under Perl, done it
do you have any plan, such as you need to modify your code after
another Perl version, such as Perl 4.0 to the current version? already in 5.8.6


Thank you.

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