[ale] What to use

[Christopher Fowler]

I'm assuming threads are not supported?

[cfowler at cfowler tmp]$ perl -e 'use Thread;'
Can't locate Thread.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at -e
line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

At least on my RH 7.3 default install.  


On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 09:44, Fletch wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:25, Joseph Knapka wrote:
> 
> > # Call doSomthing 3 times
> 
> <pedant> Technically these three are subtly different.  See perlsub
> for the full details, but: 
> 
> 
> > &doSomething;
> 
> This calls doSomething, but passes the current sub's args (@_).
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> sub bar { print "bar: ", join( ", ", @_ ) }
> sub foo { &bar; }
> 
> foo( qw( Zorch bippy acorn ) );
> __END__
> 
> 
> > doSomething();
> 
> This calls doSomething, but passes no arguments (@_ will be empty).
> 
> 
> > doSomething;
> 
> This calls doSomething with no arguments, but the definition for the
> sub has to have been seen before the call (so that perl knows it's a
> sub and not a bareword; of course if you've `use strict'd like you
> should perl would then scream at you for the bareword . . .).
> 
> 
> > To me that is the #1 weakness of the language. The lack of a clear
> > standard way of doing things.  When you go to perl from a structured
> > language, it kinda confuses you. :)
> 
> Ah, but the thing is you can be as structured as you want.  Or not.
> TMTOWTDI.  But it's your choice, not the language's, as which way you
> go.
> 
> 
> At any rate, before this devolves into a dissertation on why Python
> blows :) I'll point you at _Object Oriented Perl_ by Damian Conway for
> an excellent guide on being structured and OOP-y in perl, and at
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ for a bit more regular alternative to
> perl (think Perl cross Smalltalk with some of the good ideas from
> Python swiped for good measure; Ruby's purported to be a heavy
> influence on how perl6 is shaping up)
> 
> -- 
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