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.
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