Re: Dear Programmrers, PERL seems the Language to go for. (I have used, BASIC, C, C++, TCL/TK, PASCAL).

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <jong-240195111026@macx20.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>,
Jong Park <jong@mrc-cpe.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Dear Programmers,
>If you still wonder which language you want to specialize for
>long, try PERL. 

Been there, done that.

>My experience tells it is very logical in many ways. I mean, whenever
>you wish to this and that way, it always has a way prepared for it. 

No matter how obtuse is may seem! :-)

>Partly because it has got many good features from many different
>languages. The easyness and usefulness are unmatched by any
>other language while it can be extremely powerful.
>
Without invoking any other language, do the following:
	1.  Write a device driver
	2.  Write a graphics rendering program.
Come back when you're finished.  (Hint: Can't be done)

>I just want to share the joy I have with PERL after years of 
>doubt, disappointment and effort in other languages.
>
Look, Perl is very cool for very certain things.  Tom Quiggle even
write a nice Ada source reformatter in Perl.  It AIN'T a swiss army
knife, however.  I like it as a shell language though, because it's
portable (roughly speaking :-)

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