It's much the same for me. I could hardly get the hang on any language that is not Perl. With Perl it was quite natural to get involved with it. I guess it's "simply" the Right Language for Me(TM), as it is for most of us here. But I couldn't say what it is that actually makes it such.

OTOH I'm also quite naturally interested in programming languages as of themselves, i.e. concepts, paradigms, techniques, and so on (even though I have not pursued this interest much). And in this sense every now and again I'd like to study some other language to see other philosophies, but in the end I'm always sticking with Perl.

Oh, and while this is true of many other languages, as of most things in life, it's "more true" of Perl: you never ever terminate learning! Just the other day Tanktalus pointed me to an OO construct that must be relatively common but that I had never met, as you can see in this node: Re^4: Seeking advice for OO-related strategy.

From the above mentioned POV of programming language concepts, despite the common claim that Perl is more {practical,magical} than elegant, I find it quite rich as a workbench, due to its eclectic heritage. Of course this will be even more true of the more and more often mentioned Perl6, with its multiparadigm nature, and despite the fact that I dislike some of the charachteristics it is supposed to have, just like everybody does, I'm eager to see the beast... to learn even more Perl!

In reply to Re: More Perl by blazar
in thread More Perl by Anonymous Monk

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