From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T12:12:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 05:31:44AM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
>> On 7/23/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:30:23AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>>> Kaldrenon wrote:
>>>>> Yet another male (Maybe YAM will replace YAPH some day? *sigh*)
>>>>>
>>>>> age: 19
>>>>>
>>>>> background: BASIC, Visual Basic, the scripting language included in
>>>>> TI-83 Plus graphing calculators, C++, Java
>>>>>
>>>>> Presently learning: Perl and Ruby, with plans to learn Lisp, Lua, and
>>>>> Ada. My goal is to become a true polyglot.
>>>> Unless there's a financial reason, I'd skip Perl and focus on Ruby. And
>>>> Scheme is probably a better tutorial language than (Common) Lisp. Check
>>>> out "Dr. Scheme", for example.
>>> Unless you're Ed, I wouldn't skip Perl.  I actually like the the
>>> language.  Why limit yourself?
>> Another variation on the perl theme: Wait for Perl 6 though -- you
>> will be in good company too ;).
> 
> I don't think it's necessary to wait for Perl 6 -- but I'm certainly
> looking forward to it.
> 

I'm just totally bored with Perl -- Perl 4 was a great improvement over
awk, but I only maintain old code in it. I don't like to write new Perl
code, and I am not willing to wait for Perl 6 when there are other
languages I like -- Erlang, Ruby, and maybe Smalltalk (assuming a decent
Smalltalk shows up on the AMD64 in Gentoo before I die. :) Perl 5.8 is
good enough, Ruby and R are better