Group, this isn't about beginners or Perl, it's about whether or not VB, Perl etc is the best language in the world and doesn't belong here. People are as protective of their favourite languages as they are of their mothers, and I don't want to read a list of list members' relatives either.
Please let's keep this to alt.religion.programming. Cheers, Rob "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... To me Visual Basic is retarded , not even a last resort. At best a good tool to use to learn some basic concepts of programming to move on to a better one like C or a variant. But that's just me. If you don't like perl don't use it and go join a visual basic mailing list. As for me I don't like visual basic so I don't use it and I don't post to mailing lists for it explaining that all of these 1000's of users are dumb to use such a language. I personally like perl very much for plenty of reasons. But why get into a big fight over 'my daddy can beat up your daddy'; It's not 'hell' trying to use data structures more complicated than a hash. It's quite elegant and simple once you do it a bit. Unless you've never done it then it may be, just as riding a bike or tieing your shoes or not crapping in your pants was 'like hell' at one time or another in your life. Sorry, enough ranting I've had quite a day with no one to take it out on. I apologize. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Rob Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why Perl kicks but! David and everybody else, To me, Perl is a tool to be used when other tools don't fit. It's great to be able to write a program that will run on just about every Windows and Unix box ever made, but it's hell trying to use structures more complicated than a hash. Give me Visual Basic first, and then C++. Perl is a last resort. Rob __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
