On 1/27/06, Jonathan Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:29:06 -0700, "Levi Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 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.
I'll stand up as one that has moved from Perl to Ruby. Ruby is my preferred language. Yet I still program in Perl *very* frequently. And I don't mind it. Does that make me a sysadmin or not-very-experienced developer? I leave that to the judgement of those that know me. Your opinion is not representative of either of those communities. Jacob Fugal /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
