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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c8086456b887be55 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-24 20:09:58 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: stephen@amidala Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: License to Steal References: <92HD6.3345$D4.334091@www.newsranger.com> <200104240531.WAA01552@well.com> <9c3evo$q133@news.kvaerner.com> From: stephen_bevan@yahoo.com (Stephen J. Bevan) Message-ID: Organization: just me at home X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:09:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.78.155.126 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 988168197 24.78.155.126 (Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:09:57 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:09:57 PDT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:6907 Date: 2001-04-25T03:09:57+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei T. Jensen" writes: > >One well known and fairly major clue might be that > >Larry Wall is a linguist by training. Does he know > >something the Ada team should have considered about > >how the user wants to _think of_ a language? > > I would not be surprised if you are right. I think he made some interesting > constructs in perl. E.g. I really like "unless" because it allows me to > specify exactly what I want to express, when I use it. While Larry can certainly be credited with putting it in Perl, "unless" was a part of Lisp before Perl was a twinkle in Larry's eye.