[[rescue] flamewar question: Perl]

[Ken Hansen]

Hey look, Bill (or is it Bil?) hand-types his name at the ned of every
posting... So do I.

Why don't we include that in a .signature file?

Ada reminds me of the old saying about Camels - that "the Camel is a Horse
designed by a committe"

Ada was developed as an end-all, be-all language backed by government dollars.

Kinda like PL/I was the end-all, be-all language backed by IBM dollars.

My job at Bellcore was to support an application that was migrating from
Mainframe/IMS DC/IMS DB/PL/I to Sun/X 11/Oracle/C++ - they were porting it
because Bellcore could not find PL/I programmers in sufficient Qty. Oh, and the
ported application saved the clients exactly *zero* dollar over the Mainframe
software they had - instead of paying for fractional support of a large
mainframe, they had to pay 100% costs of Sun/Unix admins for their little
boxes... Many clients were suprised that going client-server didn't actually
save money... But, the GUI was nice, compared to a 3270 terminal...

Ken

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:00:23PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > > I told someone once, "once you learn how to program, thats the hard
> > > part - everything else is just learning different syntax for the
> > > same things, for each new language".
> > There perhaps are some languages that break that idea.  Scheme comes to
> > mind for one thing.  Actually, scheme might be the only one I can think
> > of.
>
> And I cant think of a single reason to *ever* learn the following languages:
>
> Scheme
> Lisp
> Algola
> Ada
> Haskell (gah, not another one of those professor-had-a-boner educational
>          "functional programming" languages..)
>
> etc. 8-)
>
> Bil
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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