So...why would I need to learn another language other than for the journey along a new path..?

From a short term practical point of view, I have found that learning JavaScript has been extremely useful seeing as most if my work runs on a server and is viewed by a web browser client.

The two languags are reasonably complementary and not too different and it can be quite nice to get the client to run the display cruft while the server gets on with someone else. JS can also alow you to do much of the input validation on the client thus saving considerable effort in making the server reject malformed queries politely.

The other, longer term, reason for leaning a new language is that it helps you to think of things in new ways. TMTOWTDI is a big strength of perl, but many perl programmers who have learned perl after experience with other languages come with built-in assumptions because they map perl to $previous_language. I suspect that in a similar fashion your perl will get better if you learn some other languages in addition to perl.

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In reply to Re: Why learn another language? by dingus
in thread Why learn another language? by AcidHawk

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