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Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?



> Yes, "structured programming" was the term used.
> Structured programming uses functions, while loops,
> if/then/else statements, and so on, instead of "GOTO 1230"
> type commands, to control a program's flow.
>
> One of the basic goals of structured programming languages
> was to eliminate reliance on line numbers -- which were the
> hallmark of many other languages in use at the time.
>
> Nowadays, we rarely think about this, because structured
> programming won its battle. All modern languages are built
> on this paradigm

One should do a super-lisp with focus on doing everything and
not caring about the Lisp aspects, maybe one could have
a "Lisp Python" that way?

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