Learn all of them.

I don't see a single language can provide all the goodies that today's computer science can provide you. perl is good, c is good, java is good.

In a void context, Perl is not the best, Java is not the best, c is not the best. Nothing is the best, unless we are clear what application we will deal with.

In a web scripting context, you still have lots of choices, at least include Perl and Java.

To learn a language should not cost you too much time, learn both, and be good at one (at least). After you tasted both Java and Perl, you can make a decision yourself.

Gather opinions from others, those are insightful and based on precious experience, but good suggestions usually do not agree with each other, (and should not, because of things like different background etc.), so eventually ;-) you have to make your decision by yourself

In reply to Re: Should I learn Perl? by pg
in thread Should I learn Perl? by Anonymous Monk

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