No, I don't think that you will wind up re-evaluating any of them. It appears that you have your opinion already, and every inconvenient new fact gets slotted in the ordained hierarchy somewhere.

About your caveat, if you read Beating The Averages you would find out that Dr. Graham has made more money than you are likely to ever make by writing business type apps in a reasonable timeframe for a reasonable budget. Oh, and he did it in one of the languages that you listed as "useless" for exactly that purpose. Care to open up your mouth any wider? We wouldn't want your shins to have trouble following your foot...

Of course he then went out and explained why he chose it, why it worked, and why you won't see lots of other people following his example. I could talk more about that but the article explains it quite well. And if you won't get it from there, what makes me think that you would get it from an anonymous nobody either?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham by Anonymous Monk
in thread "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham by grinder

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