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Re: virii



Tom Massey wrote:

> Remember that Larry Wall tends
> to see himself as a linguist before anything else - that's
> actually all you need to know to understand Perl.

Interestingly, he has never published any papers in any professional
linguistics journal, seems never to have taught the subjet at any
accredited university, and a genuine Stanford linguist of my
acquaintance who is also a programmer regards Perl as an absolute
horror.

Craig

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