on Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:14:31AM -0700, Craig Dickson insinuated: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 12:06, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Do I detect a bit of snobbery here? > > No. The point is just that Wall's occasional references to the > linguistic basis for Perl's design are basically BS. He may have a > bachelor's degree in linguistics, but he isn't a linguist, and > according to my friend at Stanford, most of what he says about > linguistics in connection with Perl (or programming language design > in general) is wrong. to what exactly are you referring? i'd be very interested to see what he says on that score. the only reference i've run across about that is this http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html, which isn't particularly BS, but doesn't draw any non-tenuous conclusions, either. </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^
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