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From: "FM" <danfm@dartmouth.edu>
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Subject: Re: Beginner's Language?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 13:06:55 -0400
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"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????

I was dead serious. Its syntax looks more like a result
of evolution than design and that's what distinguishes
*natural* from *artificial*.

Dan.

(Sorry about multiple posts, but I didn't notice the followup.)