Perl

Now that another decade comes to an end, it is time for me to see if the ten years really were worth the effort. Overall it seems to have been more pain than was strictly necessary. 2000 - it all started quite nice. I just turned 30 and was living in London, just got together with my girlfriend and working for guideguide a very nice start-up which was going quite well at the time. One highlight of the year was a trip to OSCON in California, where I witnessed the beginning of Perl6, which seemed brilliant at the time and now appears a bit pointless. ...

As I recently started learning Python one of the things I noticed which I didn’t like is the class syntax. So I wrote some minimal hello world programs in the languages I recently used to show the difference: C++ hello.cc #include <iostream> class Hello { private: char *value; public: Hello(char *newvalue) { value = newvalue; } void hello() { std::cout << this->value; } }; int main() { Hello hello("hello\n"); hello.hello(); } I like the C++ syntax, it is the language which introduced me to OOP and it clearly states what bits are what without too wordy syntax. ...