On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:29:06 -0700, "Levi Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Jan 27, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > It's no sin to be inexperienced. We all start that way. Just like me > > and my Pascal. > > You have clearly implied that any developer that continues to use > Perl must be inexperienced, and will eventually 'grow out of it' like > you apparently grew out of Pascal. The weasel word 'mostly' doesn't > get you out of that.
My apologies for not having a peer-reviewed study correlating experience with perl use. Still, that is definitely the case: experienced Perl developers, who experiment with other languages, tend not to stay with Perl. You can see this happening in both the Python and the Ruby communities... but you almost never see someone moving the other way. This has been a very clear pattern if you follow the respective usenet groups. If it's insulting to say so, so be it. Please continue shooting the messenger. :) > That's both clearly false (by evidence of many counterexamples) Sure, you can find exceptions for every rule... Except in your world, where acknowledging that is "weasely." Good luck with that whole black and white thing. -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
