SMALLTALK or PERL ?

Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

Thanks!

Jul 19 '05 #1

2729

> Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Meaning Perl or Pearl? ;-)

The answer to your question depends on what are you going to use it for.

Jul 19 '05 #2

Purl Gurl

English Teacher wrote:

Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

Your personal learning curve will be significantly enhanced should you
elect to pay closer attention to your spelling, English Teacher.
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Jul 19 '05 #3

Purl Gurl

Andrew Shitov wrote:

Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Meaning Perl or Pearl? ;-) The answer to your question depends on what are you going to use it for.

"Do not give to dogs what is holy, neither cast your pearls before swine,
or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you"

(Matthew 7:6)

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Jul 19 '05 #4

Vladimir Los

Cmalltalk ofcrz!

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Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

Thanks!

Jul 19 '05 #5

Jay O'Connor

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:35:35 -0700, English Teacher wrote:

Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

Smalltalk would be much better for teaching good programming and design
techniques, and a heck of a lot easier to learn.

Perl would be better for teaching something that would probably be more
immediately financially useful to the learner

Python would be an excellent moddle ground in teaching something easy to
learn and well structued, but with more avenues for commercial usage than
Smalltalk

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Jul 19 '05 #6

Sascha D?rdelmann

En************@ ModernEnglish.c om (English Teacher) wrote:

Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

Useful to learn or useful to teach? As others said, it all depends on
what you want to do with the language.

I don't think Perl is a good language to start with. I'll give you two
alternatives for perl:

1. Ruby is said to be greater than (Smalltalk+Perl )/2 to illustrate
that Ruby has a lot in common with both languages and provides more
benefit than just a little bit of both worlds.

2. Python has more users than Ruby but similar features and therefore
might be a good choice, too.

There's nothing wrong with Smalltalk, you just have to decide which
Smalltalk dialect to take ;-)

Squeak Smalltalk is an interesting language to teach young children
the basics of computer programming. See http://squeakland.org for the
details. But Squeak is also suitable for learning computer science at
any age in many different fields such as graphics, sound, networking
or interpreter design. And with Squeak knowledge behind there's no
problem in learning other Smalltalk dialects or other object oriented
languages as Ruby, Python (or even Java and C# ;-)

Cheers
Sascha

Jul 19 '05 #7

Frank ess

"Sascha D?rdelmann" <ws***@onlineho me.de> wrote in message
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En************@ ModernEnglish.c om (English Teacher) wrote:
Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

Useful to learn or useful to teach? As others said, it all depends on
what you want to do with the language.

I don't think Perl is a good language to start with. I'll give you two
alternatives for perl:

1. Ruby is said to be greater than (Smalltalk+Perl )/2 to illustrate
that Ruby has a lot in common with both languages and provides more
benefit than just a little bit of both worlds.

2. Python has more users than Ruby but similar features and therefore
might be a good choice, too.

There's nothing wrong with Smalltalk, you just have to decide which
Smalltalk dialect to take ;-)

Squeak Smalltalk is an interesting language to teach young children
the basics of computer programming. See http://squeakland.org for the
details. But Squeak is also suitable for learning computer science at
any age in many different fields such as graphics, sound, networking
or interpreter design. And with Squeak knowledge behind there's no
problem in learning other Smalltalk dialects or other object oriented
languages as Ruby, Python (or even Java and C# ;-)

Cheers
Sascha

shhh

Jul 19 '05 #8

Scott Zsori

> Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?

Learning curves any different?

People.. check for crossposts before responding. Damn troll did the
same thing in the PHP and Coldfusion groups.

Jul 19 '05 #9

Victor

> People.. check for crossposts before responding. Damn troll did the

same thing in the PHP and Coldfusion groups.

After your suggestion, I checked. I see nothing wrong with asking many
questions in many places. Interesting threads followed.

Victor

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Which would be a more useful language to learn, Smalltalk or Pearl?
Learning curves any different?

People.. check for crossposts before responding. Damn troll did the
same thing in the PHP and Coldfusion groups.

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