From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/08
Date: 1998-01-08T14:47:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34b4e5f8.997361@news.mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gwinn-0701981543510001@dh5152126.res.ray.com
On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 15:43:51 -0500, gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn)
wrote:
>.... Perl is
>intentionally designed to allow the violation of the majority of the usual
>good-programming practices and restrictions, such as the strict type
>safety that Ada is so famous for.
>
>Why did they do such a thing? For expediency.
Perl also has the interesting characteristic that novices tend
to write fairly straightforward, easy-to-read code, but
experienced programmers use various syntatic and semantic
constructs that make their code completely unreadable.
It's the perfect hack language.
Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC
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1998-01-05 0:00 general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Munck [this message]
1998-01-09 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Randal Schwartz
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-09 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-08 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-09 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1998-01-12 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Randal Schwartz
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] <01bd1616$a9110b40$24326489@Westley-PC.calspan.com>
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
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