Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: You might have a better time teaching Perl programmers Ruby, because of it's Perl'isms. Then on to Java. Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 11 Message-ID: <5122479.2096.1335981199713.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcoq1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335986085 17700 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2012 19:14:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 19:14:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 1429 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14141 Casey Hawthorne wrote: > You might have a better time teaching Perl programmers Ruby, because > of it's [sic] Perl'isms. Then on to Java. I'm not so sure you can teach Perl programmers anything. But good on you for trying to find a way. I suppose the first thing to do is to teach them programming, then on to Java. -- Lew