home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: news1.radix.net!not-for-mail
- From: yml@radix.net (root)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Followup-To: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 05:40:53 GMT
- Organization: YML Consulting
- Message-ID: <4fjvh5$k83@news1.radix.net>
- References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4e54vc$7sk@orac.mon.rnb.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin1.annex2.radix.net
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0]
-
- John Viega (jtv2j@garnet.cs.virginia.edu) wrote:
- : In article <ukn3702whe.fsf@linda.teleport.com> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
- : > I hope you see my point by analogy. Perl code is imminently readable
- : > to me. I am fluent in Perl. Appaarently, you are not. So it is
- : > *unreadable* to *you*.
- : >
- : > If you need some help understanding Perl, I perhaps can recommend a
- : > good book or two. :-)
- :
- : implementing others difficult, that I would hardly expect any language
- : to be all things to all people. However, I think that it is quite
- : unfortunate that the languages that see the most use and support today
- : cater to the beginning programmer not at all.
-
- Why limit a lifetime of professional programming convenience by optimizing
- the design of a language for the first few months of a learning curve?
-
- It's like tutorial books vs. refernce books. Learning Perl in 21 days is
- going to be useful to you for, oh, about 21 days, yet the "advanced"
- terse "difficult to understand" Perl reference will be useful for a
- professional eternity.
-
- -- Yermo
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Yermo Lamers http://www.YML.com yml@Radix.Net
- Internet & Unix Systems Md, USA
-
- Web Site User Tracking and Revolutionary Interactivity
- Unix and Internet Wizardry fearlessly practiced at reasonable rates
- Opinions expressed are my own.
-