Hi Saifi, What can I say about Larry's writing.. geeky, weird, insightful, and fun! Thanks for sharing.
P.S. : Perl supports unicode characters in the variable names, really? Anyother language thought of doing that? --- All, I never learned Perl, but it was one of the first languages I looked at when I realized I need to think beyond C/C++. I bumped into the sweet Ruby instead, and never looked at perl again. I stayed farther away from perl when I came across perl code now and then (the perl code was presented as a comparison to ruby, so there may be pro-ruby bias in it). Here is my question, is it really worthwhile to look at Perl now? I understand that different languages would induce different kind of thinking about programming problem. But I would probably look at Haskell, and/or Erlang for that purpose than Perl. So I am wondering what are the voids in Ruby that could be ably filled by Perl. The answer to this could motivate me to learn Perl. Your opinions welcome. Cheers, Ragu
