Re: Perl Programming within Debian

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

ccostin wrote:
> > Now, my personal views:
> >
> > Perl is the Visual Basic of the open source world. It's possible to write
> > good Perl code, but the structure and facilities of the language 
> > encourage
> > bad habits and unreadable code. If you want to learn an open source
> > scripting language, learn Ruby or Python. I prefer Ruby, but either one
> > will encourage better programming discipline than Perl. The information
> > about Perl I gave above pretty much applies to Ruby and Python as 
> > well. Any
> > of them are just an apt-get away.
>
> What about Rexx ?

Wow! I am thrown back to VM/CMS 20 years ago. Is Rexx around?
I see regina-rexx. I have the "the" editor installed that we used with that!

Hugo