Hmm, didnt think i'd start a flamewar(tm), good thing i came back from work early. [snip] Anyhow, calling it an obfuscating language is insulting. Perl can be used well. I've been able to make perfectly fine perl code. Its all about style. I find that languages that keep me from expressing the way I want to hamper my productivity anyhow. If I can code in perl, keep it pretty, and get more done, why should I listen to people like you who think perl somehow posseses programmers to do stupid things and use global vars, not abstract, and other big nasties? [/snip] problem is, most of all people who code perl express themselves in ugly, nasty, unreadable ways, even myself. I find it way easier to do one liners then write actual readable code =P. On a serious note, Perl is hard to read if people do express themselves so, maybe without realizing, perl makes it easy, but i use it all the time, its definatly a wonderful language. 70% of everything i code is perl. [snip] Whowa. Could you please give me concrete reasoning towards this effect. Include source if you want. [/snip] i figured the </shot_at_java> would maybe make you think, 'hey thats a joke, even if i dont like it, i wont take it seriously'. seems you should take a break, go read some http://www.userfriendly.org and laugh a little. I use java a bit, I dont prefer it, but I still use it. Java has it's place, that is true. wub, Justin "Slightly wondering where all the humor went" Cook Themes.org Staff mailto:jsc at themes.org http://kde.themes.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21269] Beginning - Language Perl or Python? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org