On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will add to the confusion in my own way. > > You remind me of The Drunken Master. An unconventional Kung Fu teacher! > My love affair with perl goes far beyond the job requirements. > > I tried entering obfuscated Perl contests, though I did not win. My Perl is too clean. :) > > Javascript happened because of my biz need. > > Does innovation happen because of biz need, or because some hacker is playing around? It's ECMAScript, as in "European Computer Manufacturer's Association"-Script. Sounds pretty biz-y. > And python was learnt by and by. Even today I am not very good at it. > > sagenb.org uses Python! And also, bitcointrezor.com uses Python. I like white-space-sensitive languages myself. Perl was also very useful in my career. So much so that it actually > caused my boss to be > annoyed by my speed and grasp of perl. > > And also my boss's boss. > > Annoy too many bosses, and you're forced to become your own boss. This can be a good thing! > By the way as an aside, death stalks us every minute. When we die we > cannot carry all our wealth and > enjoyments to our next life but we surely can carry our knowledge. By > > Surely, you are wrong! When we die, it really is over for us. There is no more life after death. Now you and I are saying two different things, and neither of us knows anything about death. What we are saying is called BS ( Belief System ). > Now back to the topic. > > Python cannot do what perl can. And you can argue similarly with other > languages also. > > Every language has its place in the scheme of things. > > But if you are looking at learning programming or obtaining long term > employable skill then > all these languages are good. > > Javascript cannot be learnt without html, xml, css and CGI knowledge. > > And CGI cannot be written in javascript. ;) > > For CGI you have to learn perl anyway. > > So many inaccuracies! Points off from your house! ;) > But Javascript is useful only within a browser environment. > > Do give Node.js a shot. Useful, outside of the browser. -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
