🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <JTV2J.96Feb11120004@brunelleschi.cs.virginia.edu>,
John Viega <rust@Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>There is no need to sacrifice power for ease of use and learnability.
>There are a handful of languages at least as powerful as Perl, and
>several times more readable.

Okay, uhm... name one?
Tcl is out; it's an abomination, having taken a cool idea and gone *way*
too far with it.  It has the ancient sh bug; it rescans too often.  IMHO.

>While you may fancy yourself a good enough programmer that you can
>code in Perl as fast as anything, Perl has really shown itself to be a
>"write only" language.

Fascinating.  Look, I'm a C advocate, but I have to admit, well written
perl is *stunningly* comprehensible.  I'd use it for example code to
illustrate an algorithm.

>While you may not agree, I think that the more
>people who can read my programs, the better.  I don't see why someone
>should need to be an experienced to expert programmer just to be able
>to make some sense of my code.

I agree; but I don't see the relevance to perl.  If you want a hard to
read language to pick on, go to alt.usage.english, and talk to them
about this whole "ough shall be pronounced differently in any token ending
with it" concept.

-s
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