I hate to ask

[Deque]

She's coding a robotic arm to feed her baby.

Na. I read it. I just don't know what to tell you, lucid. I think doesn't matter at all if you go for Python or Perl. I guess in this case it is indeed a good idea to try out both of them for a while and see what feels better for you. Or just use a dice, you know.

(On a sidenote: my professor would say "Both start with P, they are equally bad, as well as every language starting with the letter P." and "These people who invented the P languages didn't attend my course" and he would suggest to learn Haskell )

[lucid]

Na. I read it. I just don't know what to tell you, lucid. I think doesn't matter at all if you go for Python or Perl.

Yeah, I imagine I'm probably over-thinking this way too much.

[Deque]

Yeah, I imagine I'm probably over-thinking this way too much.

Yeah. Use your energy and time to do something productive instead of this. Sometimes you just have to do it. It's not like you are closing the door to every language you didn't decide for. It is not a marriage.

[iTpHo3NiX]

Flip a coin, head=python / tails=perl then just roll with it. You're not liking it, try the other.

[lucid]

Ok. Good advice. Perl for another week. Then Python a week.

[Clone]

perl has a wide range of modules  you can do just about anything.Its syntax is ugly and hard to follow through so you are sure code is "safe", while python its easy plus everybody knows it by now.Anyway its all depends on you

[Traitor4000]

   Clone, i never realized you could make ugly syntax sound like a good thing!

[Clone]

Kulverstukas said ,"she is coding a robotic arm to feed her baby"....so out of sheer respect and innocent curiosity ,there are girls in this forum ?

[Phage]

Kulverstukas said ,"she is coding a robotic arm to feed her baby"....so out of sheer respect and innocent curiosity ,there are girls in this forum ?

What did you expect? Yes there are female members of this community, it's just not everybody who openly tells about it.

[Clone]

Impressive! ...ignore my surprise but from where i come from its rare

[Phage]

It all depends on what kind of sites you're on and how the environment is.

[rasenove]

@Lucid: Which language are you trying out first?

Impressive! ...ignore my surprise but from where i come from its rare

It's the same almost everywhere. Women don't do much computing because it's emotionless which is true until strong AIs come into play. And that there's no 'creativity' in it, that's where they're wrong. Very few spend enough time with computers to realise the trouth.
Deque (java savvy moma) and Nea(good girl) are the two most active female members we have.
Now back to lucid...

[Deque]

Impressive! ...ignore my surprise but from where i come from its rare

I believe there are more female members in some areas than you know. They just don't tell for good reasons.
I mean look at the reactions if someone tells. It is nasty.

Women don't do much computing because it's emotionless

I do it because it is emotionless.
I tend to have too much of emotions and I feel much better if it is more calm inside of me. It wouldn't be any good for me to have a job that makes my emotions go up and down even more.
I also like that computer science is (mostly) not that fuzzy. You have clear definitions, clear solutions, or no solutions at all, but even that is mostly clear. You have precise languages to describe the world. And after all if you do some work, you get a relatively clear feedback. You will know if it works or not in contrast to doing social work where you never see the people again after you did something to them...
That creativity is in there too, is a great combination. I have preciseness, but also endless possibilities for expression. I just love it.

[Clone]

Its good to know that chicks actually like computers other than facebook and twitter.Looking foward to learning from them 

[kenjoe41]

You will be suprised what women can achieve if they reson with the brain but not the heart. You will be surprised how huge they buckets of knowledge Deque sits on.