I'm pretty sure somebody coined the phrase "perl is just lisp with lots of syntactic sugar" or something like that; the memory is in here, connected somehow to... to... uh. If it wasn't, I coin that phrase here to throw it in as a bait ;-)

I've done some lisp, time ago, but I've found it - while interesting - less practical than perl, and I need to get my jobs done, which mostly involve makeshifts and cranking out solutions quickly for pressing problems. Nothing better than perl and CPAN for that.

I'm on and off teaching myself haskell, erlang, ocaml, Standard ML, but practical demands always pull me away from them, and so I find myself again patching C code, writing perl, extending shell scripts. There are many languages that are interestingly different to perl which I really would like to not only know, but master... if I could come up with a business case... my favorite among these is FORTH, which I might study zen-like after retirement; for now occasional PostScript hacking has to do.

In short, the urgent doesn't leave time for the important.

I'm glad my job doesn't force me to PHP, but python is creeping slowly onto my desk to bore me. :-(

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