[ale] Language Jihad!

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Actually, now that I think about it, Open Source is dead and
users of any language other than C# will soon be rounded up
by the Micro$oft Inquisition, and they won't be using the
Fluffy Pillow. So you'd probably better learn C# and CLI. If
they find any trace of Perl or Tcl or Python in your brain,
they'll drag you off for "re-education". Damn, they're probably
on the way here right now... I gotta reformat all my
hard drives, on the double! <knock knock> OH SHI

Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
> I have wanted to learn a programming language for a while now.  My
> thoughts were first with Perl for sysadmin.  Later, I thought I'd go
> with Python to get Object Oriented type code but still have the string
> manipulation capabilities.  Right now, Barnes and Noble has a C++ class
> online I am trying out.  Also, I discovered Ruby which has high praises
> for useability and versatility.  Tcl is interesting and people have
> praised Ada95 to me.  I am a bit confused over the whole "what is best"
> thing and believe that whatever will get the job done with the least
> fuss and bother is probably best.  I've bought books but until I get
> really fired up and believe I am on the "right" track, I just lose
> interest!
> 
> I really had a laugh over the "Language Holy War" email replies over the
> html link sed regexp question by Christopher Bergeron!
> <trying to clean up coffee spilled from hilarious laughter with pages
> from Solomon's "Organic Chemistry">
> 
> <I hated Organic Chemistry!>
> 
> Can someone convince me which is the best all around language to use?
> Seems that C++ isn't so difficult but I really like Ruby and Perl for
> the simplicity of how much code you have to write to get something done.
> 
> Of course, I really enjoy piping basic unix commands together such as:
> 
>  grep -n 'chemical connectivity' inputfile |
>  awk -v FS=: '{print($1)}' |
>  xargs -i echo " -e '{},{} s/0X    4 /0X   11 /g' \"
>  >> output_sed_script.txt
> 
> Now that was fun!!
> Dow
> 
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