Doug Sheppard writes part four of Beginners Intro to Perl, and Mark-Jason Dominus posted the incisive Why I Hate Advocacy. I'm sure many people will find some things to disagree with in there, and it has a lot of good commentary.
On Slashdot
vsergu on 2000-12-14T17:08:35
"Why I Hate Advocacy" is being
discussed on Slashdot.
embarassingly familiar
mstevens on 2000-12-14T17:15:00
I can recognise far too much of what mjd critcises
in myself and people I know. It's stuff I've been striving to fix ever since I read Nat's original article - thanks to mjd for making the problems
even clearer.
The only thing I would criticise about this article is the extended references to baseball, which I suspect will play really badly with anyone outside the US.... although they do work even if you're totally unfamiliar with the sport.
I voted for 'Other'
gaudior on 2000-12-14T17:51:42
My other favorite language is UniVerse Pick Basic.
Another possible choice
hading on 2000-12-15T00:48:41
I voted for Common Lisp (which is actually my favorite language including Perl), but clearly on e of the choices should have been "There are other languages besides Perl?" :-)
Objective-C
beppu on 2000-12-15T22:41:32
I think Objective-C is nice, although I haven't had a chance to program in it, much. Regardless, I think it's very clean, and I love how dynamic it is.
Maybe I'll put a GNUstep installation on my laptop and play around with it again. (...If only I didn't have so much work to do).
Smalltalk
dws on 2000-12-18T22:57:59
Smalltalk love ifTrue: [ horn honk ]
SML is a good choice
thomasj on 2000-12-20T10:22:27
Standard ML is a very strong language and is a diamentral opposite choice from Perl in most ways: It is very strict typewise, it is pure functional and very oblivious. But, it is practical. And it is why I like both Perl and SML, since it is always about getting the job done and getting home before five. (Maybe that is why I write so strange Perl and so convoluted SML
:-)
C won't die.
cabes on 2000-12-22T21:07:07
If it wasn't for C I wouldn't have great things like Perl, Apache, and Linux to play with.
Thread mixup
bart on 2000-12-31T15:59:57
In case you hadn't noticed yet, there are two articles with the same ID: 00/12/14/1653200, namely the languages poll, and "New www.perl.com Articles".
That'll teach you to post two articles at the same time. The ID appears to be date and time stamp, and nothing more.
Time for some debugging!
My other favourites
cmilton on 2001-01-09T22:36:05
I'm fond of Haskell, Gofer, Moscow ML, Caml-Light,
and other functional programming languages.
I also like to write sed, awk, and ksh scripts,
though I keep trying to learn zsh and C...
Later.
PostScript, GWBasic, PL/1, early IBM Assemblers
tds on 2001-01-10T01:09:01
These were my favourite languages in their times, which might at least show Perl doesn't have to be a young person's language.
During the decade gap between PostScript and Perl, I did almost all my "programming" using the spreadsheet functions built into an obscure Macintosh app, RagTime 3, supplemented by a few tricky bits in Mathematica.
Prolog
mAsterdam on 2001-01-29T00:08:46
Yes it has its drawbacks - don't they all. However, the elegant program/data syntax and its goal/vision -
programming in
logic make it a friendly uncle to Perl. Prolog really should have been in the picklist.
JavaScript
belg4mit on 2001-01-30T00:03:01
JavaScript
Re:My other favourites
cmilton on 2001-02-05T18:13:40
Language Links:
Haskell
Gofer Moscow ML The CAML Family
Re:Prolog
rotan on 2001-03-06T00:17:47
Ok, Please convince me and teach me
