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Solve : Is Perl on its way out the door?? |
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Answer» The College course I am currently attending, my instructor suggested that I work in PHP with web interface to MySQL Server. He pointed us to W3Schools. https://www.w3schools.com/default.asp Remember W3Schools is NOT official in any way. Ok cool... Thanks BC For college course to use it as a reference for students, never knew it wasn't really official. From a search... 10 most in-demand tech skills Python. A high-level, general-purpose programming language introduced in 1991. ... Java. Java is a general-purpose, high-level programming language that was developed with as few implementation dependencies as possible. ... Cloud services. ... Linux. ... JavaScript. ... SQL. ... Matlab. ... HTML. Hi Geek, found your url 3rd down on search for "10 most in-demand tech skills" ... Perl is #9 on list. https://www.cio.com/article/3196975/it-skills-training/10-most-in-demand-tech-skills.html Quote 1. PythonFor what it is worth... Many once trendy computer programming languages do not show up very often in a search. But people are still using them or want to learn. I had to learn assembly language mostly on my own. Here are some things that might be important to some students: Quote The number of courses sold by programming bootcampsMore important are methods to teach how to solve problems. EDIT: Some code that got my eye. Code: [Select]LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA = LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY = LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL = LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I = LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2) BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE BAG THIS PROGRAM REALLY LIKE TOTALLY (Y*KNOW) IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL Source: http://quarkphysics.ca/humour/humor10.htmlIF statement had me laughing. Also even "dead" languages like COBOL and FORTRAN have demand that heavily outstrips the supply, entirely because nobody wants to or thinks they should learn it.Perl has a reputation for being easy to write but difficult to maintain, unless it is written specifically for that purpose. Whereas a language like Python has the rep of being easy to maintain no matter what, due to its stricter, simpler, more universally legible syntax. In my own experience, Perl is versatile and flexible, with modules for everything under the sun. But, so is Python, and it has greater advantages in a group/team/collaboration setting. If you were going to ask for a recommendation between the two, I'd say go with Python, because it has broader industry support, and a BDFL (Guido Van Rossum) who demonstrates focused leadership and has a clear vision for the direction the language will take. But there is nothing stopping you from learning and trying both, which is probably a good idea, because ultimately you're the one who has to write in the language, so you should choose the one that most closely suits your own expressive style as a programmer. Just my two centsThanks for everyones input on this. Its been ages since I worked with Cobol. I got it along with an 8088 that I picked up in the early 1990s on the cheap. A friend of mines uncle had some books on it and he leant me them to poke around Cobol but I found my love of the time in the style of Basic, since I started with Basic on my TRS-80 Model 1 with 16k RAM. But having worked mainly with Basic and GW-Basic at School around 1987, I loaded up GW-Basic on DOS 2.11 and did most of my programing in that until exposed to QBasic with DOS 5.0. I liked GW-Basic's features with colors and sound and it ran pretty well to make some games, although I hit the 64k limit with it because I was horrible with memory management and reuse. I took a liking to Python, but took Perl through VIRTUAL University about 13 years AGO for the cost of taking 4 courses a semester for $20 total, ( their pricing has since changed ) and liked how Perl has lots of powerful functions built into it so you can TYPE up a few lines of code and achieve the same outcome as what may take 25 lines of code in C++. At some point I will dig deeper into Python, its easy to follow but I just need a project that is in it that causes me to spend more time in it. For me its usually that there is someone elses code that I am working with that draws me into languages they are written in, I then learn by example or dabbling in them to add features or tweak it to my needs or curiosity. Seen some cool games created that have python in the background for ARM devices etc. At some point I will dig deeper into it. Its good to be familiar with a bunch of different languages, and the strength in them comes with putting in the time with the code and troubleshooting and having others point them in the right direction.Do you have Active Perl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_0hQ_1X_L8 |
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