From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:49:40 GMT
Date: 2004-02-06T14:49:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8QNUb.21269$KV5.15480@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi
"Joona I Palaste" <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
news:bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi...
> ... But C and C++ are a
> breeze compared to the likes of Perl, Python and Lisp.
I find Perl particularly obtuse. Perl reminds me of those comics where
obscene language is replaced by a string of random puctuation characters.
Frankly, I don't understand how Perl has caught on when there are more
powerful, and more readable, string processing languages available.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 22:13 Announcing new scripting/prototyping language Dave Allison
2004-02-05 22:19 ` Christopher Benson-Manica
2004-02-05 22:56 ` Larry Hazel
2004-02-05 23:40 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 15:49 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 16:06 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-03-04 16:40 ` Richard Riehle
2004-02-05 23:53 ` Richard Heathfield
2004-02-06 8:38 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-06 14:49 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2004-02-06 15:23 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-06 19:01 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 19:02 ` Jeff Schwab
2004-02-06 21:25 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-07 14:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 18:29 ` Dan Pop
2004-02-06 19:17 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-07 20:33 ` Y2KYZFR1
2004-02-07 20:42 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-08 4:54 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-09 18:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 2:09 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 8:26 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 16:23 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 18:15 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 17:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-03-04 16:58 ` Richard Riehle
2004-03-04 17:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 17:39 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 1:00 ` Unforgiven
2004-02-06 3:02 ` Jack Klein
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