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		gdp on Sept 7, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joe Stump: Why I switched from PHP to Python And wrestling alligators can be learned in five minutes if you already know how to wrestle crocodiles. > if you understand the programming model Right, learning the syntax of a programming is easy and quick, if you already understand the programming model. I argue that it is difficult to learn new programming models in general.

jjs on Sept 11, 2009 [–]

> Right, learning the syntax of a programming is easy and quick, if you already understand the programming model.

Or at least, it should be. Hence my criticism of Perl.

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