From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: perl-mode vs cperl-mode Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <12087213-242c-4dd7-8405-39278f5ebf2e@v15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249707506 14108 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2009 04:58:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 04:58:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 08 06:58:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MZe0X-0006RI-3W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:58:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZe0W-0007bW-Mu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:58:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v15g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249684397 21247 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2009 22:33:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v15g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171783 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:52:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66974 Archived-At: > On 2009-08-07, Colin Williams wrote: > > > I'm trying to decide how to set up my perl development environment, > > and I've come to a bit of a conundrum. I realize that there is both a > > `perl-mode' and a `cperl-mode' lying around in the emacs code base, > > but it's unclear to me which one is better. Many people have said > > (rather authoritatively, I might add) that `cperl-mode' is much > > better, but none of these people bother to list the ways in which it's > > better. I was hoping somebody could categorically list the features > > `cperl-mode' has that make it better than `perl-mode'. i code in perl daily from day job as well as my own scripts from about 1997 to 2004. Since then i haven't looked at the issue of which perl mode is better, but basically, cperl-mode is far better during those years, and probably true without a slightest doubt today too. these sort of questions really only you can determine. Posting here is probably just a social chatting call. LOL. On Aug 7, 9:36 am, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > > I (obviously ;-) tried to investigate this topic, and now I'm pretty > sure that nobody would be able to answer your question. This is the > standard gnoseological problem: it is many years now that I did not > see people with clue (e.g., about cperl-mode) who know how perl-mode work= s... > > In CPerl menu Mini-docs, there is the description of one half of your > question. The other half would probably remain a mystery forever... > > Hope this helps, > Ilya Hi Ilya, i was intriqued by one of interview on you about how perl lacks text processing functions. I wrote a essay about it: =E2=80=A2 Text Processing: Elisp vs Perl http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_text_processing_lang.html do you think my understanding of your remarks is roughly on the ball park? Your comment appreciated. Thanks. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84