Re: any ruby programmers who are perl users?

zentara wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:16:42 -0400, [email protected] (Richard Lee)
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>> Most likely just out of curiosity factor, I picked up a book "Learning 
>> to program " the facets of ruby series..
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> See what some experienced Perl programmers say about Ruby
> http://perlmonks.org?node_id=689996
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> zentara
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Hi, I read that and yes it is very helpful.
I was just listening to podcasting and I heard Chad Fowler("my job went 
to india: 52 ways to save your job) talking about programming language
in general.
One of the quotes he says that I felt like it was for me was that, "You 
really need to get out of your comfort zone time to time or else your 
comfort zone will
be one of your limiting factor"....

now I am still a beginner at perl but I have been using perl(I know no 
other programming languages) and I am really attached to the perl and 
wanted to
get some other perspective and since I have been hearing so much about 
ruby..

perl  is SO useful that (hmm how should I say, language itself and also 
the community) sometimes I lose sight on science of programming.
I guess perl could be a bad language as first programming experince 
because perl just works so well and now that I have spend close to year, 
I find myself
going backwards to learn some of whys and hows....  But now that I have 
spend close to year, I am really happy :-)

I am not sure if learning another language while I am still newbie at my 
first language though.........
But giving that perl touches up on just too many areas, I feel like I 
should include another language just to get a fresh views.......