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On Tue, 13 May 2003, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > >I've come to the conculsion that most of the direct comparisions to > >other languages in the Perl documentation are not particularly relevent > >anymore. > > Sounds like you've got some religious axe to grind. Feel free to > keep the axe, but stop cutting down the documentation! > > I find the comparisons plenty relevant, and even useful for the > fast-aging hordes of UNIX sysadms who happen to know sed, awk > and C, but never managed to find the time to do perl. They may be useful for some, but I think Michael's point that they don't belong at the beginning of the document about Perl's syntax is relevant. References to perltrap should be enough for people coming from a strong sed/awk/C/Befunge background, but for others, especially people learning Perl as a first language, or second after PHP/Python/Javascript/VB/etc., they are just distracting. Maybe perlsyn should mention perltrap right away, with something like: If you'v got a strong awk and sed background, or you've recently been suffering with C, you might want to take a look at L<perltrap> before going too much further. The L<perltrap> tutorial explains some of Perl's syntax traps for those who've been subjected to inferi^W other languages. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/Thread Previous | Thread Next