From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: 10259a,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-22 08:11:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:16:57 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3B0A74D9.2A811C9D@brighton.ac.uk> References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d6b6e$1bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87snihxiwc.fsf@frown.here> <9dbi83$sji$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87heyu7cqd.fsf@frown.here> <9dc20p$hh15e$1@ID-37382.news.dfncis.de> <3AFA91BE.BB9E4C8F@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 990540997 29478 193.62.183.204 (22 May 2001 14:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 May 2001 14:16:37 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7697 comp.lang.lisp:10564 comp.lang.smalltalk:10018 comp.lang.functional:5766 comp.lang.scheme:3966 comp.lang.perl:2876 Date: 2001-05-22T14:16:37+00:00 List-Id: Lex Spoon wrote: > > Michael Livshin writes: > > > John English writes: > > > > > Mark VandeWettering wrote: > > > > I am constantly confused by justification. First of all, precisely what > > > > feature of perl is similar to natural languages? > > > > > > You can write poetry in it? :-) > > > > there's nothing natural about poetry. > > And it's not specific to perl.................. Go on then, write me a poem in Lisp (or Cobol, or Ada, or Java)... :-) "I think that I will never see A poem lovely as a... doubly-linked list? ISAM file? etc..." ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------