Re: Best unix programming language or tool for dealing with plaintext DBs?

From: Russell Shaw (rjshawN_o_at_s_pam.netspace.net.au)
Date: 11/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 13:38:01 +1100

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> joe@invalid.address writes:
>
>>casioculture@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>>Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Would you guys suggest I learn perl before lisp, or lisp before
>>>>>perl?
>>>>
>>>>"LISP is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience
>>>>you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make
>>>>you a better programmer for the rest of your days." -- Eric
>>>>S. Raymond
>>>>
>>>>You'll probably find it easier coming to terms with Perl.
>>>>
>>>I'm so sorry, I'm a little thick today, does this mean that learning
>>>perl first would be easier, or that learning lisp first would make
>>>it easier for me to come to terms with perl when i later learn it?
>>
>>Forget about lisp for something like this. This kind of thing is what
>>perl was made for.
>
> perl is unreadable and unwritable. At least, with APL it was
> unreadable, but you could write it...
>
> Lisp is readable and writable.

Perl is easy once you rtfm and use comments. I've only ever heard
of lisp being used for some editor that masquerades as an OS;)

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