> > for a new person, this could mean less confidence in perl and more > interest towards php etc... > ty. > Rajeev >
Hi Rajeev, The idea is not to curry favour with one language or another, but help a person get on with what they're doing. If Mark needs to know Perl for his job, then I think we can safely assume it's Perl 5 that is being discussed. I don't think Shlomi meant to imply (or implied) P5 is a dead end—indeed, it's not—but that learning Perl 6, or some implementation (which may or may not end up being finished/abandoned/?), will not help Mark with his job. "more interest towards php" is not a valid concern because a) we're not trying to stop 'our people' going to 'their people', we're trying to help people get things done, and b) Mark didn't come to Perl, Perl came to Mark, so it's not like there's any worry that he'll choose something else. ;-) Best of luck to you all, Anneli ________________________________ > From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> > To: Brendan <bdgil...@gmail.com> > Cc: Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com>; Mark Tiesman < > mark.ties...@doit.wisc.edu>; "beginners@perl.org" <beginners@perl.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:45 PM > Subject: Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User > > Hi Rajeev, > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:20:24 -0500 > Brendan <bdgil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How quickly Perl 6 knowledge can be put to good use probably depends on > where you work. I don't think there are many businesses where they are > looking to convert their Perl 5 code to Perl 6 in the immediate future. > > > > Rajeev may wish to read http://perl-begin.org/learn/perl6/ about the > relationship between Perl 5/"perl 5" and Perl 6. Neither Perl 5 nor perl 5 > are > going away, and Perl 6 is a completely different language. Furthermore, the > current Perl 6 implementations are incomplete (= don't implement the entire > Perl 6 spec), and may not perform very well or have various bugs. > > I wouldn't want to discourage you from learning Perl 6, because it's an > interesting language with many nifty features, but learning Perl 5 now will > still prove useful for a very long term. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > > Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > >Mark, > > > > > >i think with an eye on future, you should start by reading Rakudo etc. > i.e. perl6 > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ > > There is no IGLU Cabal! Home‐made Cabals eventually superseded the power > and > influence of the original IGLU Cabal, which was considered a cutting edge > development at its time. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ >
