Re: [RFC] Adocacy Paradigm Shift: Perl - the Language for Smart People

2011-03-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 08 Mar 2011 17:41:19 Louis-Philippe wrote: Some stand on the idea that learning a new language is worth it these days if it brings you to new programming paradigms and/or new possibilities. In that light, I see Bash scripters could be seduced by Perl, but the gang in the

Re: [RFC] Adocacy Paradigm Shift: Perl - the Language for Smart People

2011-03-08 Thread Xaero
I would agree that there could be many people who try to learn and do difficult tasks. I guess when I started learning Perl that was one of the things at the back of my mind. However it needs to be seen how many people have an affinity to intellectual challenges that Perl has to offer. As you

Re: [RFC] Adocacy Paradigm Shift: Perl - the Language for Smart People

2011-03-08 Thread Louis-Philippe
Some stand on the idea that learning a new language is worth it these days if it brings you to new programming paradigms and/or new possibilities. In that light, I see Bash scripters could be seduced by Perl, but the gang in the Cool-Factor-Zone/Ruby/Python are mostly inclined to move toward

Re: [RFC] Adocacy Paradigm Shift: Perl - the Language for Smart People

2011-03-08 Thread Dave Cross
On 03/08/2011 09:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Now, a lot of us have tried to market Perl 5 as a language that is easy to learn and not so hard and not exactly Rocket science, but maybe we should admit that while one can master a small subset of it pretty quickly, it is still positively huge and has