use Perl

• That quote is from the alpaca preface (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  And, as always, a special thanks to Lyle and Jack for teaching me nearly everything I know about writing and convincing me that I was much more than a programmer who might learn to write: I was also a writer who happened to know how to program. Thank you.

  I find that writing and programming both tickle the same parts of my brain. Both are artistic expressions into a concrete medium, with practices and standards and tools to use.

  --
  

  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
• we're not all writers (Score:2)

  by htoug (771)

  I for one am definitely not!

  I have always been envoius of those who can write as well as program - Randall, Damian and Pierce to mention a few.

  I feel that there is (at least) two kinds of programmers:

  • the extrovert, artistic type, ie the ones whop can write lucid text, stand up at conferences and say sensible things etc.
  • the introvert, semi-autistic types who prefer to hide down deep in the innards of programs, who hate public speaking, who can't oput two words together without harming either.

  I find tha
  • Re:we're not all writers (Score:1)

    by heusserm (4461)

    Isn't code just writing intended for a different audience? One that is more precise and less emotional than Spock? ...