I'm going to go with Aristotle on this one. It's rather unfortunate that programmers people are so busy fighting religious wars that the search for the truth has become a casualty.

Recently I was chatting with a Java programmer. He quickly attacked Perl's "weak typing" and "unmaintainability" and claimed the term "scripting language" actually meant something. We were discussing the strengths and weaknesses of object typing versus object capabilities (via polymorphism/allomorphism). I have no idea how things descended into a debate about the merits of the languages. It should have been about the merits of ideas but everyone seems to want to pick a fight. That's where advocacy frequently takes us. (And Perl programmers are just as guilty of this as others.)

For a wonderful counter-example, start reading Lambda the Ultimate. They don't suffer trolls (they've been dealing with a few lately), but they're more focused on ideas, not ideology.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re: But you don't WANT to do everything in Perl! by Ovid
in thread But I WANT to do everything in Perl! by InfiniteSilence

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