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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-10 14:55:04 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!news.bu.edu!newshost.Dartmouth.EDU!danfm From: danfm@dartmouth.edu (FM) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? Date: 10 May 2001 21:32:11 GMT Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Message-ID: <9df1cr$v2k$1@merrimack.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9dbi83$sji$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87heyu7cqd.fsf@frown.here> <9dc20p$hh15e$1@ID-37382.news.dfncis.de> <9ddfv2$gl3$1@merrimack.Dartmouth.EDU> <9ddkfc$hsgmv$1@ID-22205.news.dfncis.de> Reply-To: danfm@dartmouth.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: north-dhcp-221.dartmouth.edu X-Trace: merrimack.Dartmouth.EDU 989530331 31828 129.170.146.221 (10 May 2001 21:32:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@Dartmouth.EDU NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2001 21:32:11 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7517 Date: 2001-05-10T21:32:11+00:00 List-Id: Jochen Schmidt wrote: >FM wrote: >> Andreas Krennmair wrote: >>>Of course, this is not the best example, since Perl has a syntax that is >>>not the optimum for beginners. >> >> Perl's syntax is the closest thing I've seen to a natural >> syntax in a programming language. > >?? Is that meant as a joke or what???? I was dead serious. Its syntax looks more like a result of evolution than design and that's what distinguishes *natural* from *artificial*. Dan. -- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe