Re: any ruby programmers who are perl users?

----- Original Message ----- > Whee! Inflammatory topic!
> 
> 1) If you are interested in learning to program for the sake of
> programming (vs getting XYZ done), Perl probably isn't the best first
> choice. (Not that its the last choice or anything, but not first.) I'd
> personally advocate C/C++ or maybe Java. Maybe make Perl a third
> choice ;)

Why?
I use perl as my primary programming language and I've made web apps with it, desktop apps for Windows, portable desktop apps for Windows and Linux. If I don't need to work in a very big team of programmers and I don't need the programming language to force us all to use the same style and syntax, why should I use C++ or Java?

Octavian