Re: [MacPerl] Code comparison (I know someone knows)

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 11:43 PM -0600 10/27/98, <chilton@tca.net> wrote:

} Just wondering who on this list was working on a page of comparisons
} between Perl and AppleScript for those who know AppleScript and want to
} learn Perl.

It's really rather pointless, since Perl is far more powerful than
Applescript and Applescript is so unlike other common languages.  There's
little of what you know from Applescript that's applicable to Perl (or Tcl,
Python, C, Fortran, Usertalk, etc.).

If you want to learn Perl, learn Perl.  Sit down with a book and learn
Perl. "MacPerl: Power and Ease" is probably your best bet, and it's online,
but "Learning Perl" would be a fine choice (but watch for lurking Unixisms
in the examples).  I find that it *really* helps if there's something that
I actually want to do with a language, since it gives me something concrete
to work on that will be used when it gets done.  I still use the first
MacPerl script I wrote daily.  (It will be enlightening if you then try to
do the same script in Applescript.)

}
} -Chilton



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