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From: Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:47:40 -0500
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On 3/19/2024 2:45 PM, Lester Thorpe wrote:
> Why does the mal-informed world prefer Python to Perl?
> 
> Perl has EVERYTHING that Python can offer (and probably a lot
> more).  Check out CPAN (www.cpan.org) which offers hundreds
> of thousands of Perl modules that can serve any purpose.
> 
> I suspect the reason is that Perl is an "imperative" language
> while Python is "object oriented."
> 
> Object orientation is for fucking programming sissies!
> 
> Listen up, you fucking OO assholes.  It will all get translated
> into imperative machine language in the fucking end.  So why
> take a fucking gargantuan fucking detour?
> 
> The answer is that OO "programmers" are programmers in name
> only.  They don't know fucking shit about computer science.
> 
> Perl is the interpretive language of choice.
> 
> Anyone who does not gleefully choose Perl is a brain-starved
> idiot.
> 
> The case is closed.
> 
> Lester Thorpe
> 
> Lester has spoken.
> 
> Disagree?  Your head will be broken.
> 


You know, I first gathered my energy to go after the good old C language 
to freshen myself up with it, then I turned to assembly language cause 
you said so as "a sage advice", then I found out my general questions 
would be better answered if I learned hoc, then my general questions 
made a turn, and I was left with chances that the best language for me 
at the time was the good old C again; then on checking out Go and taking 
Ken Thompson's words for it, I let C go and began preparing to go after 
Go. And now, you're saying if we don't choose Perl we're brain-starved.

:-)

Then how about C++? I attempted it two times with vigor and thoroughness 
and both times HD's went bust and also once (so 3 times in fact) the 
laptop couldn't get charged anymore, and I could not transfer the work 
to a desktop, so they came to stop.

And these Microsoft / Linux stuff and switches back and forth were 
making the water even muddier.

I think, if I had not relied on COLA to provide help on these matters, 
by now, I'd be months into fruitful learning of ... probably C++ and 
into several exciting programming projects.

This place is wasteful. It is like a drinking parlor. You go there 
everyday and drink and joke and curse and argue, but in the background, 
it is making you an alcoholic, making you drift.





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