From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f35c80c2232ab1ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-25 02:48:30 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dear Programmrers, PERL seems the Language to go for. (I have used, BASIC, C, C++, TCL/TK, PASCAL). Date: 25 Jan 1995 04:48:30 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <3g5a9u$clm@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1995-01-25T04:48:30-06:00 List-Id: In article , Jong Park 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 :-) -- Frustrated with C/C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)