Marvelous and inspiring thread, blazar :)

I don't think there's any language except perhaps C which is as flexible, and I'd get a lot of agreement that C doesn't come close. Perl syntax is incredibly loose and allows some really elegant ways of expressing algorithms that just aren't available in other languages. To me, it's amazing how flexible this bear is as she dances so gracefully!

One reason I've always stayed away from C++ is that it seeems to me that there are several distinct paradigms for C++ programming, and mixing them gets you into more trouble than you can generally handle. In Perl, by contrast, mixing and matching seems much more encouraged. To be more specific, I'm referring to STL-oriented C++ versus OO C++ versus C-like C++. Perhaps it's my own hesitancy that's my enemy. =8*O

I think there's a lot to be said for looking at other code, and the Monastery provides an entertaining gateway into the insights of others that no other community website brings forth. I'm not very courageous in my expressive idioms -- my code isn't as bad as BASIC, but it does show assembler roots -- but I sure find lots of encouragement here to push my envelope further each and every time I build a new script.

Don Wilde
"There's more than one level to any answer."

In reply to Re: On TMTOWTDIness by samizdat
in thread On TMTOWTDIness by blazar

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