RE: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by kapper (Chaplain) on Sep 02, 2000 at 20:41 UTC
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does vbscript count as a language or a mental disorder? | [reply] |
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RE: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by ncw (Friar) on Sep 02, 2000 at 21:52 UTC
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I make it my policy to learn a new programming language every month or two!
This month it is PHP. If I didn't know perl I'd be really
excited about it, but PHP is like perl without all the
exciting bits.
The good thing about PHP is the ISAPI implementations of it
which run as well as mod_perl or perhaps better but without
any of the hassle of mod_perl (like conflicting name spaces, my variable hassle, working
out exactly when mod_perl will reload your code etc...)
Don't misunderstand me though, I still think perl rocks! mod_perl is
brilliant too, just a little quirky ;-) | [reply] |
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{...} without any of the hassle of mod_perl (like conflicting name spaces, my variable hassle, working out exactly when mod_perl will reload your code etc...)
Uh, those are all the hassles about Apache::Registry, just one of the many
ways to use mod_perl, and in fact one of the most primitive and kludgy.
Once you get out
of babystep mode, and start using real tools like HTML::Mason or
HTML::EmbPerl, you'll find that using these higher level tools makes
mod_perl pretty much as easy to use as PHP, and you won't top out
in what you're able to do with it.
As I've said before here... PHP is "training wheels without the bicycle". Use
it if mod_perl isn't available, but if you have a choice, learn something
with power rather than scaffolding.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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(jeffa) RE: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by jeffa (Bishop) on Sep 02, 2000 at 19:38 UTC
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Does boiling spaghetti count as a programming language?
Cooking is
just about as painfull to me as progamming in VB, should
they both count - or do they null each other out? | [reply] |
RE: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 02, 2000 at 22:13 UTC
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I don't usually keep count, but, well, lessee... C (yeah, I know, yuck!, but only a short program), Perl (of course), Scheme, ML (a few lines of OCaml and SML/NJ, actually, but let's just count them as one), Common Lisp (also only a bit), Haskell, Curry, "English" (pseudocode! duh :), FORTH (a few varieties), MIXAL (to illustrate some concepts to a student). Yep, that's all :)
-- Kaufmann | [reply] |
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just one, and still trying to!!
:o)
* since html and javascript ARE NOT languages :o)
#!/jpsama/bin/perl -w
$tks = `mount`;
$jpsama = $! if $!;
print $jpsama;
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RE (tilly) 4: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2000 at 00:30 UTC
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I think Simon Cozens stated my attitude
very
well:
Perl is sometimes called a `scripting' language, but only
by people who don't like it or don't understand it.
Firstly, there's no real difference between programming
and scripting - it's all just telling the computer what
you want it to do. Second, even if there was, Perl's as
much of a scripting language as Java or C... The people
who call them `programs' on the whole write better ones.
The point being that if you think of programming and
scripting as different things, you will be inclined to
take shortcuts while "scripting" that you would never
take while programming, and you will not be inclined to
learn how to really use Perl to its limits.
In short the difference is in attitude, and thinking about
programming as scripting is unwise. | [reply] |
RE: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by BigJoe (Curate) on Sep 05, 2000 at 17:12 UTC
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I am not big on the bondage and self torcher stuff like VB and such.
--BigJoe
Learn patience, you must. Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things. Use the source Luke. | [reply] |
RE: How many different programming languages have you programmed in within the last month?
by elwarren (Priest) on Sep 05, 2000 at 02:51 UTC
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Does compiling perl yourself count as using another language? If so, it may be even more since there are makefiles also. Does installing perl count as 4 languages? | [reply] |