Re (tilly) 3: Does Knowing Perl Help or Hinder Learning another Language

While Smalltalk did strongly affect merlyn and many others (eg dws), I have only been exposed to it second hand.

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Re: Re (tilly) 3: Does Knowing Perl Help or Hinder Learning another Language by arhuman (Vicar) on Aug 28, 2001 at 16:56 UTC
I thought, you've been exposed enough to show a good understanding of the language (as far as I can see) and enough to influence some of your answers. I refer to this post or this one among others... ;-) "Only Bad Coders Code Badly In Perl" (OBC2BIP)	[reply]
Re (tilly) 5: Does Knowing Perl Help or Hinder Learning another Language by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 28, 2001 at 17:25 UTC
Some of that exposure is exposure to Ruby, which borrowed Smalltalk's object model lock, stock, and barrel.	[reply]