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
    What language(s), editor(s), debuggers and what-have-you you use, is immaterial to that.

    Perhaps from a philosophical-Turing perspective but not in reality. I was teen hacker, honors math student who fell *completely* away from it and ended up with a liberal arts degree, etc. If I'd only had Java or C and friends, I never would have resumed programming. The only reason I came back was Perl. I don't hack because I have to. I hack because it's fun solving problems this way. And not to start a thread about it because it's personal taste but I might not have come even with Perl if vim had been the only universally available vehicle.