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What's with Perl programmers?

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:11 am
by Bigun
I went to a Perl chatroom once to help me with preg matching. And the guys there did help, but then I mentioned that I was using it for PHP..... and the flaming ensued. What's the deal?

Re: What's with Perl programmers?

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:30 am
by Chris Corbyn
Bigun wrote:I went to a Perl chatroom once to help me with preg matching. And the guys there did help, but then I mentioned that I was using it for PHP..... and the flaming ensued. What's the deal?
I don't think they're all like that. I guess you just went into the wrong room ;)

Did you get the help you needed? I might be able to help with a little Perl regex :)

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:58 am
by n00b Saibot
d11wtq wrote:I might be able to help with a little Perl regex :)
yay!! cheers to the regex guru... :D

you can ask any type of query here... only limited by the board rules. the community here is most liberal than anywhere i wud say :)

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:10 am
by onion2k
Perl programmers are rubbish!!

*Onion tabs to editor, checks what code he's working on, comes back..*

No, wait, Perl programmers are awesome!

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:55 am
by Bigun
Of course I got it taken care of...

I was just wondering if there was some kind of fued between PHP and Perl programmers.

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:20 am
by onion2k
Bigun wrote:I was just wondering if there was some kind of fued between PHP and Perl programmers.
All languages get a bit of flack occasionally from people who evangelise other languages. PHP is looked down on because it's pretty much Visual Basic for the web (monolithic function set, incredibly easy to use, introduces flawed software design in the hands of a newbie..). If you want to a lisp forum and mentioned you were using Perl you'd get people saying your code will be unmaintainable because it's written in smilies.

It's no different to the sort of chat you get on car forums, music forums, movie forums.. everyone has there favourite and they like to put the others down. Human nature I guess.

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:26 am
by alex.barylski
^^^ Well said onion :P Damn evanleglists :lol:

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:28 am
by Luke
php programmers are losers

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:42 am
by Jenk
People Hate Perl :P

(or programmers)

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:19 am
by alex.barylski
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:php programmers are losers
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I tend to agree...but their losers in that winner sort of way...know what i mean :P

Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:33 am
by Luke
Hockey wrote:
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:php programmers are losers
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I tend to agree...but their losers in that winner sort of way...know what i mean :P
haha yea