Being new to Pike, when I first looked at the Pike Hello World program, the syntax, at first glance, reminded me most of the D language which also uses 'write' and a somewhat similar 'std.stdio'. ðŸ¤
Cheers, Gary On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 8:41 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2022 at 09:42, chikega <chik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I’m a new learner. It's interesting to see results on Google Trend > comparing various high-level programming languages like Perl, PHP, Ruby, > Lua. When I punch in 'Pike programming language', I get this: "Hmm, your > search doesn't have enough data to show here." :-/ > > > > > https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=lua,ruby,Perl,PHP > > > > I usually explain to people that Pike is an obscure, but excellent, > language, with similarities to Python, C++, and various others, with a > focus on networking. But it's impossible to sum up a programming > language in a single sentence without omitting a lot of what makes it > great :) > > ChrisA > >
