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: f5d71,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-06 10:42:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!cern.ch!news From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language Date: 6 Feb 2004 18:29:43 GMT Organization: DESY Zeuthen Message-ID: References: <8QNUb.21269$KV5.15480@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lxplus007.cern.ch X-Trace: sunnews.cern.ch 1076092183 28094 (None) 137.138.4.240 X-Complaints-To: news@sunnews.cern.ch User-Agent: nn/6.6.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:17903 comp.lang.c:20727 comp.lang.java:2718 comp.lang.ada:5293 Date: 2004-02-06T18:29:43+00:00 List-Id: In <8QNUb.21269$KV5.15480@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> "Frank J. Lhota" writes: >"Joona I Palaste" 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. It is perfectly possible to write Perl code that is as readable as well written C code. And it is perfectly possible to write C code that is as unreadable as badly written Perl code. It's not the tool, it's the way it's used. Unfortunately, many Perl tutorials encourage conciseness at the expense of readability. I started to like Perl only when I realised that I don't have to follow the tutorial's examples in my own coding. >Frankly, I don't understand how Perl has caught on when there are more >powerful, and more readable, string processing languages available. Probably because Perl is a lot more than a string processing language and has an excellent interface to the OS primitives. The C-derived syntax makes it easy to learn to the C programmer, which is another big point, exploited by many other languages which wanted to benefit from C's popularity. Dan -- Dan Pop DESY Zeuthen, RZ group Email: Dan.Pop@ifh.de