Good afternoon, On 8/10/08 at 8:03 PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No no. In this day and age that's a bit like telling someone >to learn KOBOL. If you want to learn a language, you learn >php or ruby. Then, if you really need some super text >processing, cobbling it together in perl is pretty easy. But >LEARN perl? That's so 1994. [If I didn't know better I'd say a large troll just stumbled through the room. I said to the troll; it really doesn't make any sense that you are here! As the troll was leaving I whispered, telling someone to learn php is like saying to learn BASIC.] Maybe you could say *why* perl is not worth learning other than stating it's a mature language. Why is maturity a bad thing? Why do you think the other languages are better? It could be argued that choosing a programming language based on age should be like choosing a good scotch. And for anyone else listening and thinking perl is as an archaic language. That is false; it is very much a modern language and worth learning. <http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/talk/1061> <http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6> <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=422640> And BBEdit has always been a great tool for working with Perl (even in pre-OSX days). [Gotta try to at least stay on topic. ;-)] Charlie PS. I've seen Perl web apps that shake the rails from underneath Ruby. [I think another troll just popped up. Go away troll. ;-)] -- Charlie Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PO Box 141, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
