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On 03/08/2011 09:11 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Now, a lot of us have tried to market Perl 5 as a language that is "easy to > learn" and "not so hard" and "not exactly Rocket science", but maybe we should > admit that while one can master a small subset of it pretty quickly, it is > still positively huge and has many dark corners and lots of small gotchas. So > in essence saying something like "Perl - do you have the brains for it?" > (possibly phrased better). Reminds me of a lightning talk I was giving ten years ago :-) "Why Perl Advocacy is a Bad Idea" http://mag-sol.com/talks/advocacy.html Not to be taken entirely seriously. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorgThread Previous | Thread Next