in reply to Re^2: Programming Languages
in thread Programming Languages

Lisp and Ruby were my next choices. The only thing is that I do not want to risk forgetting all the small helpful shortcuts and secrets Perl offers whilst learning another language.

I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

chomp; # nom nom nom

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Re^4: Programming Languages
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Aug 21, 2008 at 17:25 UTC
    Don't stop programming in Perl. Just add another one alongside it. I find it often helps me get up to speed in a new language by solving the same problem in both languages.