Now, a new programming language is usually completely irrelevant to most of us ... except when Perl is mentioned in comparison. I give you a slashdotter's comment:
Let me just say that the last thing you want is to emulate is the styl +e of C++! Perhaps next you'll tell me it has the speed of Python and the type-sa +fety of perl....
Yep - Perl has type-safety! *grins*
You'll want to read more at http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/08/1944233
Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.
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