Tonight I was watching the Food Network, and had a revelation about Perl. I was thinking about how cooking (especially fine "cuisine") is related to math and programming (being the young geek-monk I am). It seems to me that cooking food is like a programming language...You put all these seemingly unrelated operations and values together in just the most perfect, precise way to create something truely amazing and wonderful -

All the while, I was thinking about C/C++ (my primary language).

And then it occured to me...there's a distinct difference between whipping up something after work/school and creating a "dish"." Then I thought of Perl. There's more than one way to do it. In cooking, I thought, a meal you make in 20 minutes at home tastes just as good (if you do it right) as a $50/plate meal at a fine restraunt. In Perl, you can code in a Engilsh-esque syntax, easily understandable and done, BUT you can also get crazy, inventing and experimenting -- creating something amazing and awe-inspiring, tweaked and tweaked and tweaked ad infinitum. Although both (to me) methods (can) produce the same results, and both are enjoyable, they are VASTLY different techniques. Yet they are one. Just like cooking.

hope this made sense -- i'm new to perl...only two months deep (1.5 deep into this site -- this is my first post)...yet i am absolutely infatuated with it (perl)...perhaps even on the verge of love.

reap me if you see fit.

In reply to perl && cooking by xenbo

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