[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> This thread is quite curious to me. Perl in most respects is a
> *higher* level language than C or C++. [...]
Right.
In "Beating the Averages" Paul Graham (founder of ViaWeb,
now Yahoo! Stores) writes, among other things, about high
level languages:
http://www.paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/sec.txt
http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/avg.html
In particular the last paragraph is neat (but completely
unrelated to this thread),
"During the years we worked on Viaweb I read a lot of job
descriptions. A new competitor seemed to emerge out of the
woodwork every month or so. The first thing I would do,
after checking to see if they had a live online demo, was
look at their job listings. After a couple years of this I
could tell which companies to worry about and which not to.
The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less
dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones
that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about
those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or
Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers,
that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound
like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by
real hackers."
:-)
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