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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 05:38:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: perl Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: <9pk9jl$96p$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> References: <9pgu0l01687@drn.newsguy.com> <3BBCA16D.3070608@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1002285493 9433 134.91.4.34 (5 Oct 2001 12:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:38:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13775 Date: 2001-10-05T12:38:13+00:00 List-Id: Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: : * Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: :>mike@nospam wrote: :>> In article , Pi says... :>> first, perl is ugly. it is write-only language. :> :>Heh, heh, that is the best explanation of perl I have ever heard! : : In Germany perl is known as executable brain dumps. Still many people in Germany use autoconf, even Ada programmers. Larry Wall has said, see Perl 6 discussions, he has been brain washed by the Ada rationale. I assume you are aware of -w and 'use strict;'? Where do you (all) think named parameters in Perl, or the underscores in number literals come from, something Ada fans sometime speak about with pride? -- Georg --- Microsoft Windows--a fresh perspective on information hiding