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: f5d71,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-05 18:09:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4022F87C.BFC600CC@worldnet.att.net> From: Les Cargill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:09:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.74.246.126 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1076033396 12.74.246.126 (Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:09:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:09:56 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:17778 comp.lang.c:20527 comp.lang.java:2691 comp.lang.ada:5266 Date: 2004-02-06T02:09:56+00:00 List-Id: Larry Hazel wrote: > > Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: > > > > > > > When I need a language that's easy to use and readable, I turn > > directly to C. Don't let me stop you, though. > > > > C? Easy to read? You have got to be kidding. 'C' is a right-regular language, with good orthogonality of operators. That literally means "easy to read" - or at least having the capacity to be writrten in a fashion that is easy to read. If you've ever seen any deep Perl code, you'd understand :) -- Les Cargill