on Sun, 28 Jul 2002 04:50:36AM +0000, Thatcher Ulrich insinuated:
> * Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>:
> >
> > So, we've got a complicated, ill-designed language, implemented
> > by folks who are more swayed by hype than by solid technical and
> > logical reasoning. Sounds like a winner to me! (<sound of
> > Richard retching in the corner>)
>
> And yet, Perl is wildly successful. Maybe Perl's design choices
> aren't so misguided?
woah, linguistic completeness != success of a programming language!
in fact, the opposite case could perhaps be argued better than the
positive. personally, i love perl, i just don't think what Wall
alleges about its parallels to natural language mean much.
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