And he said "Let the young be fed on Milk and Bread"

I think your statement might be more palatable if it didn't demean C programmers by comparing them to toddlers. C is an excellent grounding to learn Perl. (If you want to learn Perl, It's fun :)

Perl Developers I've met, who began cutting code with Perl, are unaware of how friendly, forgiving and rapid Perl is.

I have seen some coders baulk at the sight of other languages:

"Waddaya mean arrays are fixed length?!"
"I have to do all this declaration before I start?"
"Everything has to be in classes"
"I have to watch for buffer overflow?!"
"What are Hashes called in this language?"

...and so on.

I am not saying you're wrong, but your zeal and 'good-natured' mockery do little to promote Perl or PerlMonks.

--

Brother Frankus.

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RE: And he said by mitd (Curate) on Oct 31, 2000 at 22:33 UTC
"I am not saying what you're wrong, but your zeal and 'good-natured' mockery do little to promote Perl or PerlMonks." 'Soccer Balls!' <humility value=off> I started coding PDP Assembler in 1972. I have written 100's of 1000's of lines of 'C' and never once have I ever injured my funny bone. I had my first good Perl pooh in 1991. My Pink Camel has water stains caused a potty mishap in 1995. <humility value=on> Frankly Frankus suggesting that 'C' guys and gals don't have a sense of humour is ludicrous when everybody knows the only people with no sense of humour are APL programmers.¹ ¹ It should be noted that there is some controversy concerning the sense of humour of APL programmers since the creators* of APL obviuosly had unusally large funny bones.* No programmers were actually injured during makinging of this node mitd-Made in the Dark 'My favourite colour appears to be grey.'	[reply]

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RE: And he said
by mitd (Curate) on Oct 31, 2000 at 22:33 UTC

"I am not saying what you're wrong, but your zeal and 'good-natured' mockery do little to promote Perl or PerlMonks."

'Soccer Balls!'

<humility value=off> I started coding PDP Assembler in 1972. I have written 100's of 1000's of lines of 'C' and never once have I ever injured my funny bone. I had my first good Perl pooh in 1991. My Pink Camel has water stains caused a potty mishap in 1995.
<humility value=on>

Frankly Frankus suggesting that 'C' guys and gals don't have a sense of humour is ludicrous when everybody knows the only people with no sense of humour are APL programmers.¹

¹ It should be noted that there is some controversy concerning the sense of humour of APL programmers since the creators of APL obviuosly had unusally large funny bones.

No programmers were actually injured during makinging of this node

mitd-Made in the Dark
'My favourite colour appears to be grey.'

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