gnat's Journalgnat's use Perl JournalFrom the archives ...- November 5, 2005 While packing I just found a proof sheet for the little business cards I made for a San Diego OSCON around the turn of the millennium. Eight phrases, each preceded by the word "Perl" on a line by itself, and followed by the URL http:www.perl.org. For your historical pleasure, here they are: If I was your manager, I'd fire your ass and replace you with twenty lines of Perl. It's what the kid who replaces your department will code in. It's like Java and C++ and C, only it doesn't suck ass. It's.http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/27455?from=rss Learning Curves- November 4, 2005 "Learning Curves" sounds like the title of the O'Reilly beginner's guide to soft porn, but that's not what this is about. I'm writing my first Python program. It is quite the adventure, and I'm learning a lot about learning (always good).Things I have learned include, in no particular order: Learning Python and Programming Python aren't what I expected them to be. They're not the direct translation of their Perl equivalents. This goes double for the Python Cookbook , which seems to...http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/27449?from=rss |