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 More options Nov 5 2012, 3:48 pm
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From: Ben Morrow <b...@morrow.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:34:47 +0000
Local: Mon, Nov 5 2012 3:34 pm
Subject: Re: lerning perl
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Quoth "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usen...@hjp.at>:

> I don't think you can learn programming without a language (that would
> be like learning to write novels without a language).

Turing, Church and so on did; but most of us aren't in that category.

> (I'm not even sure if everybody can learn to program: Some people just
> don't seem to have the knack)

No. It's just like being a musician, or an artist: some people can do
it, some can't, and if you can't you might be able (with a lot of work)
to learn enough of the basics to bang out something approximately
reasonable, but you'll never do it well.

Ben


 
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