I think this is totally on topic, probably something that novices should be aware of and old hacks should remember from time to time. I realize that my comments upset many people who are probably more invested in Perl than I am. I should have mentioned in one of my earlier posts, if you want to solve a problem quickly and efficiently, by hiding certain fundamental computing problems Perl may be your best bet. I'll try not to post opinion pieces anymore; I was not trying to rile the Perl programming community or start a flame war, just trying to give my honest opinion. In fact I think I'll only post questions or just lurk; I find that this is not a very friendly list after all. Thanks, Leon/eventualdeath, for the only positive feedback to my posts so far. I also appreciate the individual negative comments (not posted to the list), which have been enlightening, and the posted comments countering my arguments. I would be happy to take this topic offline rather than continuing with the list. Again, I am always learning and no expert, hopefully someone will perform a more comprehensive analysis on this subject. It would be interesting to get feedback from the original poster now?
I apologize to the people who were upset by my posts; please don't take it personally. Let me also say that we are all lucky to be learning in the days of Perl. -----Original Message----- From: Leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 08:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Waning : Opinion! [was RE: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!] I am a very new beginner and perl is my first programming language which I learnt as a hobby. I started on perl because many people says that perl is easier to learn than other languages such as c or c++. In deciding which languages to choose, of which what I actually wanted, was to learn a language that would allow me to do things I wanted to do, and because I do not know which language to choose at that time, I therefore landed myself in perl. I've to thank you John for your comparison comments bt perl and c, c++ for it allows me to see a better picture. However, I'm not too sure if opinions marked as off-topics are allowed in this emailing group. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Waning : Opinion! [was RE: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!] > Maybe I should unsubscribe and disable this account before I hit send, but I > have to defend what I wrote. I certainly never expected to be cursed at for > posting an opinion response with justification to a beginners list! Please dont un-subscribe. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
