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Joe Marshall  
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 More options Mar 27 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu>
Date: 2000/03/27
Subject: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?
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; ; ; h e l m e r . . . <assembl...@t-three.com> writes:

> 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.

> If I learn lisp well will I be able to do what people do with perl, I
> know that we are not exactly comparing apples to apples since perl is a
> 'scripting' language. My hear is really in to lisp, looking for lispers'
> opinions.

Depends on what you want to do with your life.  The largest
`advantage' that Perl has over Lisp is the huge amount of CGI scripts
written in Perl.  If you want to write and maintain scripts, it is
unlikely that you will find many written in Lisp, and if you write
scripts in Lisp, you may find it hard to get people to adopt them.

Of course, if you really want to make money scripting, then Visual
Basic is the way to go.

On the other hand, if you really like computers, and if you find Lisp
fun and entertaining, you will most likely find Perl (and VB) to be
rather dull, poorly thought out, and painful to use.  You will find
that any program you write in Perl could have been written faster and
easier in Lisp, and if it had been, it would have actually worked.

But since you're already asking this in comp.lang.lisp, you already
know what you *want* to do, so just *do* it.  Then figure out how to
get paid for it.  You'll be happier.

--
~jrm


 
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