On Dec 24, 2003, at 9:08 PM, Tone wrote:
Hello, I'm interested in programming languages and am somehow new to this field.I am moving from Windows to Linux and am interested in engaging in the programming world.
Run Away would be my first advice.
[..]What I would like to ask is: why would I be interested in learning Perl ?Give me the main reasons why I may be interested in Perl rather than in PHP, ASP.... Is Perl any useful for Artificial Intelligence development?
The initial problem of course is resolving if
"artificial intelligence"
ever really made sense in the first place, given the unpleasant lack of definition about "intelligence" as an opening notion to attempt to 'artifact'.
But why I would use "perl" as a starting language for first learning purposes, and then where I would apply it - that is something I can at least offer some kvetching.
Currently Perl is the defacto "internet glue" the sort of all purpose "boatswain's mate" "leatherman tool" that has more options than you might want to know about. I know, because from time to time, someone will tell me about some widget set that I can do in perl that I just look at them and say,
and I want to know that why?
Or worse yet, the moment that you happen to notice that there are perl interpretors on OS's you didn't happen to know were still in existence, and hence for which there are still builds of gcc available that will allow you to compile perl for, to which as yet there are not even a Java JVM to work on.
So basically, one wants to know perl because it will provide you more insights into coding as a cultic behavior in ways that few other general purpose languages can even hope to match.
ciao drieux
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