Re^3: So much like a natural language

I for one welcome a slight slide down the curve of learning. I don't want to sound too pretentious, but I'd like to learn more Perl, and short of ugly things like ioctl and shmget and whatever modules I haven't yet needed, there's not much I can think of. Sure, I could stand to increase my obfuscational abilities, but that's not practical.

And I could learn Ruby, which is similar to Perl but not Perl, but I wouldn't be using it. I want the enjoyment of discovery with this language, and I haven't had that for quite a few years.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a job (NYC-area)
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Re^4: So much like a natural language by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jun 27, 2004 at 04:16 UTC
I'm not far enough up that curve to welcome a slide, but I know how you feel. While Perl remains my language of choice, I did go off and learn Ruby. I highly recommend it, not that I want to try to use it at work, or supplant Perl, or even truly believe that it stands a chance against Perl and Python, but because there are some very, very nice things about that language, that made me think differently.	[reply]
Re^5: So much like a natural language by japhy (Canon) on Jun 27, 2004 at 04:21 UTC
I learned some Ruby. Enough to write some programs that I wish could be translated easily into Perl. `;)` ~~Then I got jealous, and cursed the name of Ruby~~ One of the nicest features about Ruby is one of it smallest and perhaps least significant. That ending punctuation on methods is so visually appealing and powerful to me. `str = orig.chomp; # chomp()s copy of orig, stores in str orig.chomp!; # chomp()s orig in-place` [download] That just floored me. I wrote one really dumb program that exploited that. I made `chomp?` that basically returned whether the string would be changed by chomping it. What a cool feature. And so tiny! _____________________________________________________ Jeff`[japhy]`Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a job (NYC-area) `s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: So much like a natural language by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jun 27, 2004 at 05:03 UTC
Very nice. What a sweet language. When I read the pickaxe book, I get these moments where I think Matz is one very gifted man. What a shame it is horribly outperformed by Perl. At least, it used to be. Maybe if/when it migrates over to the Parrot runtime...	[reply]