Bill Ricker <[email protected]> writes: > Some of Perl's harshest critics are its most ardent supporters. > And unlike some communities, feedback works.
And those I would have no problem with. It's rather people advocating competing languages in the same family (including the author of one popular programming text) who genuinely dislike Perl who cause me trouble, specifically in that their wisecracks hurt my motivation to learn the languages they advocate. Despite consciously knowing it's stupid, I struggle not to mentally take up this advocacy battle to the point that in my spare time I find myself wanting to learn any language but Python, a language that does seem to have some advantages, if nothing else for having a lot of cachet right now. In fact, thinking about it, it's only when it comes from Python programmers that Perl bashing messes with my head. For instance, there was a well known Common Lisp programmer, Erik Naggum, who quite viciously attacked both Perl and C++, but that somehow never damaged my interest in Lisp. I probably wouldn't be too bothered if a Ruby programmer said something either, that language also seeming (at least to me) to be going approximately nowhere in terms of its popularity. And if a Tcl programmer ... well I might give that soul a hug. I guess this is something of a personal problem. Maybe I should try attending some of the Python events to cure myself of it. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
