in reply to RFC: How to succeed with your Perl homework
Heh. It always amazes me how people do love to use editors that still rely on obscure control-character sequences and character-mode screens. And who continue with the “real programmers qr/do|don\'t/ use this-or-that.” That’s not the point and it never was. Oh, it might be what you are used to, and it might even be what you prefer. But programming is a craft that consists mostly of devising a solution to a problem, such that an electronic device can carry it out without thinking. What language(s), editor(s), debuggers and what-have-you you use, is immaterial to that.
And, fair warning, it is a craft that can only be learned by practice. I will never forget my first (and only) attempt to throw a clay pot on a wheel. It looked so easy. But that (!#@#@!!) blob of clay flew off that spinning disc at considerable speed and hit me squarely in the gut. My instructor helped me clean up, spoke soothing words, and in a few deft strokes fashioned the pot.
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Re^2: RFC: How to succeed with your Perl homework
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 11, 2010 at 22:46 UTC |