Invisible wrote:
> I'd say that Perl is like 

PHP is exactly this, yes.

> I'm not familiar with Ruby, Scheme, or Mozart. Of course I've heard of 
> all these things, but I don't know anything about them. (I started 
> reading a Ruby tutorial, but the random inconsistant syntax put me off. 
> And the ham.)

Yep. And the fact that the guy who wrote the most definitive texts doesn't 
actually know what the language does. (At several points in the Axe book, 
the author says "It seems to do this" or "it apparently does that.") And the 
fact that between minor version 18 and minor version 19 they made a bunch of 
unneccesary and seemingly trivial changes to defaults that would 
nevertheless break any program that relied on those defaults. Those are the 
main reasons I never really pursued it.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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