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: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-11 20:55:03 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.sj.google.com!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!not-for-mail
From: "FM" <danfm@dartmouth.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Beginner's Language?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:56:27 -0400
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Message-ID: <9di8ot$7ef$1@merrimack.Dartmouth.EDU>
References: <9cukad$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>
NNTP-Posting-Host: north-dhcp-235.dartmouth.edu
X-Trace: merrimack.Dartmouth.EDU 989636189 7631 129.170.146.235 (12 May 2001
 02:56:29 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@Dartmouth.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2001 02:56:29 GMT
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7415
Date: 2001-05-12T02:56:29+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

"Jochen Schmidt" <jsc@dataheaven.de> wrote:
> FM wrote:
> > Andreas Krennmair <a.krennmair@aon.at> 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????

By natural, I meant that it seems to have arisen through evolution,
rather than by design.

Dan.