Yeah but, Paul Graham only found "...If they wanted Perl or Python
programmers..."
"...a bit frightening..."
He was scared sh*tless if they were asking for LISP PROGRAMMERS.
-jim ryan
How do you pronounce cdddddr anyway??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ask Bjoern Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > This thread is quite curious to me. Perl in most respects is a
> > *higher* level language than C or C++. [...]
>
> Right.
>
> In "Beating the Averages" Paul Graham (founder of ViaWeb,
> now Yahoo! Stores) writes, among other things, about high
> level languages:
>
> http://www.paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/sec.txt
> http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/avg.html
>
>
> In particular the last paragraph is neat (but completely
> unrelated to this thread),
>
> "During the years we worked on Viaweb I read a lot of job
> descriptions. A new competitor seemed to emerge out of the
> woodwork every month or so. The first thing I would do,
> after checking to see if they had a live online demo, was
> look at their job listings. After a couple years of this I
> could tell which companies to worry about and which not to.
> The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less
> dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones
> that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about
> those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or
> Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers,
> that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound
> like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by
> real hackers."
>
> :-)
>
>
> - ask
>
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