perl or .c?

[Nameless]

Hey,
I have been playing around with .c for a few months but I have heard some good things about perl. I am wondering is it worth my while to ditch .c and learn perl?

[kmj]

If by ".c" you mean "C", then it's probably not worth your while to ditch it for perl, unless you only plan on doing smaller stuff, scripting, or CGI programming. If you really wanna be a programmer, you're gonna need to know C. Now, that's not to say you can't learn perl. It's a cool language, and it's pretty easy to pick up.

[MrNewbie]

After learning C, Perl will seem really easy to you, a lot of people don't like how it looks but I don't really see why.

[AdaHacker]

Originally posted by MrNewbie:
<STRONG>... a lot of people don't like how it looks but I don't really see why.</STRONG>
Probably because it looks like a mish-mash of every programming language you've ever used and some you haven't. Why do you think some refer to it as the "Pathologically Ecclectic Rubish Lister?" Not that I dislike Perl.
:D Actually, I've just started learning it, and it's really very niffty.

Incedentally, I don't see how learning Perl has anything to do with dropping C. So you just use Perl for a while. Hold onto your C books and you can brush up when you need it. And you can be a programmer without knowing C. It just depends on what kind of programming you want to do.

[jemfinch]

Originally posted by MrNewbie:
After learning C, Perl will seem really easy to you, a lot of people don't like how it looks but I don't really see why.

One of Perl's philosophies is that "There's more than one way to do things."
Unfortunately, this leads to numerous programmers writing the same thing in
numerous completely different ways, thus making it hard for one programmer to
read another's code.

Jeremy

[optech]

don't DITCH C, but definately learn perl... it's awesome :cool: