On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar < [email protected]> wrote:
> He is not demeaning anything. He has an opinion that he is > expressing. You talk like Mr . Kapil Sibal. I use Perl is my job and I > Thanks for that excellent piece of non-ad-hominem attack. :) > have used Python as well. I can tell you from experience that even > well written Perl code is quite difficult to read when compared to a > well written Python code. Please don't hurry to say "Well, then it is > not well written". And to reply to your accusation, this is Randall > Schwartz says in his Learning Perl book. > Agreed. English is the easiest to read. Python is easy. C is very difficult (or would you prefer C to be placed before Perl?). Assembly is very very difficult... and so on. > > You may love a language, but do jump at some one who points out a few > negatives of what you love. > 1. I just ask you to imagine replacing this entire analogy to introducing GNU/Linux to the uninitiated. Imagine, if someone kept telling you that GNU/Linux sucks compared to, say, OSX... yet you gotta learn GNU/Linux for a reason not explained clearly. Now, as a reader, I'd be (and was) highly confused and become wary of approaching such a thing which is supposedly sucky and the purpose of learning which I'm not clear. 2. Imagine, being told that writing code in C is not advisable in comparison to Python because C requires careful memory management. Of course, it is a true statement (when looked at partially). But an incorrect, impartial statement. ... and imagine 1 & 2 happening on a public forum. Hence, I'd asked the OP to "consider" not doing these two above outlined things. I owe an apology to whoever that may have interpreted whatever I may have said knowingly or unknowingly to cause damage to their identity. Let's please end this thread that has gone beserk. regards, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory http://careergear.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
