Re: Perl, the new generation

At 12:49 PM 5/16/2001 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>So I guess I don't see it as that big a problem.  Am I missing
>something?

I think you might be. This isn't a problem of reality--it's a problem of 
perception and personal tendencies.

People think they *must* know all the core bits of a language, and they 
think that consists of all the stuff we ship with perl. (And, let's face 
it, we ship a *lot* of stuff with perl) It's like you're not allowed to 
know only a part of a language anymore--that's somehow ungeeky or something.

I've seen the same thing with C++, where folks think they need to know the 
whole class library and STL before they can do anything. And cheap shots at 
C++ aside, that's not true either--you can be perfectly productive writing 
standalone code without knowing all those bits.

					Dan

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