John wrote: > My mild Perl-user-bashing The point is that you're bashing.
And in doing so, you're invoking extremely bad logic. > I have found that if you tell a group > of Perl users that the sky is blue, > some of them will tell you that Perl > would be better. Anecdotal evidence. Hasty generalization. This exact same statement remains true even if you substitute "perl" for "mac" or "pc" or "ubuntu" or "redhat" or "wikipedia" or just about any project that has any kind of following. It informs the reader of nothing. All that remains then is the insult it conveys while trying to pretend that it is true only for perl programmers. > To whatever degree the people at the "perl bar" are > an insular clique of language-isolationists, Circular logic. Your premise is your conclusion. It also makes me think of the "if by whiskey" argument. if by whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, then yes, I agree whiskey is bad. > then my advocacy of learning and using a large > number of languages is probably offensive, Ah, I think maybe you ought to re-consider what it is you're doing that could possibly be landing as offensive. I **promise** you it isn't that you're advocating for the learning of a large number of languages. Just as a guestimate, I've probably written code in more than a dozen diffferent computer languages in my lifetime. > as it implies that there is something wrong with > only learning one language I haven't gone through and reread all the comments in this thread, but off the top of my head, I don't recall a single post saying anything of the sort until now. No one has said people should only learn perl. No one. > and claiming that it's the one true best ever > language with diamonds, snowflakes and unicorns on top. Have you ever heard of the concept of "strawman"? _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
