That's the score so far in my quest to get into the onion!!
My confidence levels are as high as they were when I first saw APL and RPG. Intuitive it ain't but I guess I will get contemptous after some more familiarity with the language - though I imagine this will take a bit longer than I had hoped.
As usual, I managed the "Hello World!" thing, so that's a start. I'm trying to get my mind around data types and sigils...yes, so much fun!
One of the more appealing things is the part about laziness being good as far the ethos of the language is concerned. I believed in that paradigm when I first heard the story of how Henry Ford got things done. It makes so much sense to get the most efficiency out of something, and shortcuts are often achieved by finding the quickest route from A to B with the least effort. That's my story anyway and I'm sticking to it.
Why the self-inflicted pain? I need a good string manipulation language without all the technical overheads of C includes, type mismatches, make files, etc, etc.
Oh, and it has to be free. Always a good thing in my book. Why? Because I'm going to invest my time in this endeavour, which is more precious to me than money.
Wish me luck as I attempt to at least get the skin off the onion.
Thursday 7 January 2010
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