Re: [FWP] For your amusement

[Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> ------- Forwarded Message
> From: Erik Naggum <xxxx@xxxxxx.xx>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
> Subject: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?
> Date: 28 Mar 2000 00:52:35 +0000
> 
> * ; ; ; h e l m e r . . . <assemblage@t-three.com>
> | I have been slowly learning lisp over the past year and have had someone
> | mention to me that I should learn perl, for jobs etc.
> 
>   the unemployed programmer had a problem.  "I know", said the programmer,
>   "I'll just learn perl."  the unemployed programmer now had two problems.

I must admit I agree completely with this part, if not the rest of it. ;-)

I've yet to encounter a worse reason for learning a language than thinking
it might help in getting a job - though having "someone mention to me that
I should" is a close second..

-- 
Ilmari Karonen
http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/


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