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: 109fba,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-06 07:23:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!transit.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: Martijn Lievaart Organization: TINO Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:23:21 +0100 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada References: <8QNUb.21269$KV5.15480@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Feb 2004 16:23:31 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.252.211 X-Trace: 1076081011 news.xs4all.nl 319 [::ffff:213.84.252.211]:49871 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:17876 comp.lang.c:20660 comp.lang.java:2711 comp.lang.ada:5281 Date: 2004-02-06T16:23:31+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:49:40 +0000, Frank J. Lhota wrote: > "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. > 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