On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike wrote: >> I hope to try ... Perl 6. > > Don't we all... > > ;/
Well, for playing and learning, and to begin work porting/creating useful libraries, Perl 6 will have a release in two weeks just for those purposes! http://rakudo.org/node/73 Would you like a book on Learning Perl 6? One is on progress and has made a recent 'pdf release' as well! > As for languages I'd like to learn, I'm pondering > what it would take for me to learn Java so I could > try writing a simple app for a droid phone. I found Java to be seriously easy to learn. It's closely related to C and C++, but much better syntax (IMO) than C++, and fewer ways to shoot yourself in the foot (pointers, memory allocation, casting, etc) It's also more-than-plenty fast these days, after the startup-cost of the JVM. On the flip side, it's an exceedingly verbose language. Also, some of the things that give the 'extra safety' can mean you have to take a circuitous route to make certain things work (hence the importance/prominence of design patterns in the Java world) Also, there are a mountain of APIs in just the standard libraries... and it seems like every additional library you will want has another huge API. Don't get me wrong - there are some terrific APIs out there for Java, but so many of the popular ones are huge and complicated. Just my $.02 (plus tax) -- -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
