[Tutor] programming theology questions

[Bob Gailer]

At 01:00 PM 10/30/2004, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 12:52, Bob Gailer wrote:
> > At 10:21 AM 10/30/2004, Rene Lopez wrote:
> > >How many programming languages can safely fit in your head before you
> > >get confused, or think it's not worth it?   :-)
> >
> > My history: machine language (IBM 650, 370) assembler (650, GE415,
> > Singer10, IBM370) APL, APL2, Basic, Focal, Fortran, Pascal, PLAS, PLX,
> > PL/I, C and C++, dBase-VisualFoxPro, Python, CMS Exec & Exec2, REXX,
> > Advanced Revelation R-Basic, Clarion, all versions of MS Word and Excel
> > macro languages, Access. I started learning J but got lost.... I've 
> studied
> > but not used ADA, Modula II, Snobol, Cobol, Algol.
>
>How did you avoid Java and Perl??

I picked up a Java book cuz I wanted to learn socket programming. After 
reading the relevant chapter and code examples I guessed it would take a 
couple of hours of typing and debugging to run the examples. I then went to 
the Python site, found the socket module w/examples and in 5 minutes had it 
running. That was the end of my interest in Java.

Just never had an opportunity to use Perl.

Bob Gailer
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