[[rescue] flamewar question: Perl]

[Bill Bradford]

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

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Bill Bradford
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