A Computer Scientist

I am going to stay in Atlanta for 4 days (from today to next Monday). Fortunately, I got the partial financial support from Pycon (Python Conference) so I don’t have to spend much of fortune to get there. One of things that I want to understand and figure it out is what are the problems on cs educations or mindset of Korean computer scientists. I don’t know why .. there are more literally genius friends at KAIST than MIT as far as I feel except professors. Here, professors are such a greatest resources ever, inspiring, creative, nerdy, and real ‘live’ hackers. They are programming all the time – at least in my group! It is not mentioning that KAIST professors are not potent, rather not enthusiastic and don’t know how to motivate young hackers. For about hackers, it is born by nature so there are many hackers-to-be-born in every nations. The thing is how to stimulate and train them to be real hackers to improve our quality of life of the real world. Anyhow, I am going to Atlanta to see how geek or say nerdy hackers to think and develop! I hope it should be the greatest experience ever.

I have tried to learn Perl 5 times maybe since I was sophomore. I tried Perl just because perl seems to be the real geek’s language but python is just for the novice. Yes.. it was just might distorted thought when I was young. I tried so many books and articles ah! even perl 6, which is the worsted implementation ever. Did you see perl 6 performance and specification? adding 100 numbers took over one second.(otherwise, the design itself is much fancier than perl 5, but who is implementing?)

This time, I tried perl to substitute bash, sed, awk and others, but failed. I can’t find any forte except regular expression integrated statements. Python’s Regexp is terrible to write, long, dirty match & group, slow re module .. I just want to use // for my regexp. Other than regexp, I can’t find any advantages of perl at all, so I will never ever try to learn perl again. Instead, try to find other languages like D, C# or Java.