Besides Perl5, I consider C and C++ as the only other languages which seem eternal, and therefore worth learning.

It has been said that Perl is just Lisp with syntactic sugar, which surely has some points, at the language level. At the implementation level, I would say that perl is just a baroque FORTH engine (implemented in C, which is funny). And therefore, I'd include both Lisp and FORTH (which is still alive and kicking) in the group of -ahem- eternal languages.

Well, thinking again... maybe the triade is just C, Lisp and FORTH, perl being a successful attempt to bind all three into one funny language...

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^2: Switching from lang X to Y by shmem
in thread Switching from lang X to Y by stevieb

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.