On 03/08/2011 09:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Now, a lot of us have tried to market Perl 5 as a language that is "easy to learn" and "not so hard" and "not exactly Rocket science", but maybe we should admit that while one can master a small subset of it pretty quickly, it is still positively huge and has many dark corners and lots of small gotchas. So in essence saying something like "Perl - do you have the brains for it?" (possibly phrased better).
Reminds me of a lightning talk I was giving ten years ago :-) "Why Perl Advocacy is a Bad Idea" http://mag-sol.com/talks/advocacy.html Not to be taken entirely seriously. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg