🚀 go-pugleaf

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

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