It is possible to use Perl to program in what Larry Wall call "baby Perl", i.e. a simple subset of Perl. It is more difficult to do it in .NET. I've been trying to explore VB.NET and ASP.NET for the last 4 months but I am always overwhelmed by the size of CLR. How one does know which module contains which function to accomplish a given task? It reminds me of an article by Jon Udell in Byte where he was looking for parallel between ways of doing things in various languages (What is the Data::Dumper of Frontier? ). I know ways of doing things in many languages but they are of no use with VB.NET. Even my (now rusted) knowledge of VB5 seems of no help. Micro$oft should publish a "map" linking concepts or tasks with snippets of VB.NET and maybe of VB6, just for comparison's sake. When you are exploring .NET on your own, there is just too much things to learn or re-learn.
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