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From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/08
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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