Re: [FWP] That was productive...

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

> I find that to be very unpleasant visually.  Perhaps I've just been
> sufficiently Abigailized, but if I find myself writing C-ish for loops
> to iterate over arrays, I sit back and consider how I might write the
> code in Perl and not in C.  The result is usually much clearer.  I've
> found that the more I play around with functional languages, the less
> I expose array indices in my code.

I agree with the sentiment of "PINCACINP" (Perl is not C, and C is not
Perl).  So I rarely write similarly between the two (well, between Perl
and C++, really... haven't done much C).

It's because Perl's data types are "easier" to use that idioms like

  for (@array) { ... }

are used, whereas in C, you iterate over an array with pointers or
indices.  Sigh.

I like Perl for what some of my friends have called its "macros".  "Perl
is just a macro language for C," they say.  Well, I don't care. :)

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