🚀 go-pugleaf

fsg@news.eden.com (Felix Sebastian Gallo) writes:

>For you, your job may require Sather or Lisp or C++ or even Java.
>For me, my job definitely requires Perl and little but.  Let's
>not preach to the damned or the converted, it's of absolutely no
>utility.

I strongly disagree. It has a great deal of utility. It was
by listening (reading) in on these little language wars that
I was introduced to Perl in the first place. If I hear (read)
something that catches my attention, see something that
looks as though it might be a useful tool for a particular
problem, or just hear enough testimonials from lovers of
a particular language, it often inspires me to go check it
out.

I *love* to hear (read) two people who really know a lot
about a language, but have different
opinions, fight it out. The result has been a significant
expansion in the number of languages I use, rather than
just using C for everything. (Actually, the truth is,
it has expanded my repertoire enough that I *never* use
C for *anything* anymore!)

Keep up the preaching! Those who aren't interested certainly
have no difficulty skipping over a thread, and those who
are can learn a lot from "comparative linguistics".  ;-)

__Glen Perkins__
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