Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language

[Martijn Lievaart <m@remove.this.part.rtij.nl>]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:49:40 +0000, Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> "Joona I Palaste" <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> 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.
> Frankly, I don't understand how Perl has caught on when there are more
> powerful, and more readable, string processing languages available.

I find C particularly obtuse. C reminds me of those comics where
obscene language is replaced by a string of random puctuation characters.
Frankly, I don't understand how C has caught on when there are more
powerful, and more readable, processing languages available.

Not trying to be funny, but your description made me immediately think of
my first introduction to C, and now I'm (trying to be) a Perl hacker. I
guess what is readable is very much in the eye of the beholder.

M4