From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T04:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Perl performance

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:31:02AM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > I haven't done enough C to say for sure, but I loved Perl's OO. There
> > definitely seems to be more there -- inheritance via @ISA, constructors=
 via
> > bless -- and while some find it ugly to expose all the underpinnings, t=
hat
> > is one thing I love about Perl.
>=20
> Are you aware that Perl's MI via @ISA is probably the worst way one
> can implement MI in?
> That said I admit that one can write nice OO code in Perl with some disci=
pline.

That's sorta the point of the way Perl does things: one can write good
code if one knows what one is doing.  One can write bad code in *any*
language if one does *not* know what one is doing.  I'd rather use a
language that allows me to write good code and bad code, as I choose,
than a language that disallows code better than "acceptable" and tries
(but fails) to disallow bad code.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth James Madison: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it
will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

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