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Randal L. Schwartz

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  • The Mighty Buzzard commented on Is Perl a write only language?

    Sorry, missed a bit. I learned it on the fly from other people's code, the documentation on the systems, and asking coworkers like a whole lot of us did back in the day. I've never taken a class or read a book to learn a language.

    For the past couple decades I've been just deciding to learn $foo and then immediately starting to write an IRC bot in it. I just keep adding extra functions and tweaking it until I think I've learned enough for now or until something else catches my eye.

    I did buy quite a few books for reference before online language documentation was ubiquitous s…

  • Aristotle commented on Is Perl a write only language?
    But that has nothing to do with understanding why in the world he's objecting to saying teachers who tell their students perl is hard should not be teaching computer programming courses.
    He is not in the world objecting to that. He objected to your original statement that “the people teaching [perl] are just incompetent”, which is a world of different from “teachers who tell their students perl is hard should not be teaching”.
  • The Mighty Buzzard commented on Is Perl a write only language?

    Read again, that is not what I said.

  • Aristotle commented on Is Perl a write only language?

    Oh, I see. I completely misread that, and probably so did Randal. Under that misreading, your first reply to Randal reads like a doubling down on that apparent position, when actually that response is just prioritizing overtly demonstrating disregard for people’s responses to you over figuring out why they responded that way – and with that, the scene is set for a waste of everybody’s time.

  • The Mighty Buzzard commented on Is Perl a write only language?

    Appears that way now, yep.

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