It would be quite a large problem for almost anything real-life related.

Ruby GEMS are nowhere near CPAN's breadth, how would you feel when you discovered that your language of choice needs creating from scratch SSL bindings, jabber, MS SQL library, bittorent etc etc?

It's not important as long as you're living close to university, but these days, when protocols are as complicated as bittorent's or skype's, you have very little choice.

Some people say Haskell is great "faster than C++, more concise than Perl, more regular than Python, more flexible than Ruby, more typeful than C#, more robust than Java, and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP." , I found scheme quite to my liking, but if I would like to replace perl with them, I would have to start with taking few years off, to recreate important parts of perl toolkit.

In reply to Re^2: perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby by Eyck
in thread perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby by water

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.