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Article #4334Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
From: Stephen P Potter
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:53
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:53
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In article <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu> mbk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Matthew B. Kennel) writes: Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com) wrote: : >>>>> "John" == John Viega <jtv2j@mamba.cs.virginia.edu> writes: : John> People bitch about the readability of Perl non-stop. In fact, I have : John> heard the joke, "Perl, the only language you can uuencode, and not : John> notice" twice this week around the department. : OK, now which do you find most readable... This one: loop #OUT + "I can count to " + 1.upto!(10) + "\n"; end; Or, loop #OUT + "I can count anything: " + collection_class.elt!.str + "\n"; end; If you people aren't even going to try and be reasonable, what's the point of having this discussion? -spp -- Stephen P Potter Pencom Systems Administration Beaching It spp@psa.pencom.com Pager: 1-800-759-8888, 547-9561 Work: 703-860-2222 "I don't care whether people actually like Perl, just so long as they *think* they like it... ;-)" -Larry Wall
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news1.radix.net!spp From: spp@syrinx.hideout.com (Stephen P Potter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:53:34 GMT Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: <SPP.96Feb19195334@syrinx.hideout.com> References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4e54vc$7sk@orac.mon.rnb.com> <ukd97hwzkc.fsf_-_@linda.teleport.com> <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu> Reply-To: spp@pencom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin25.annex1.radix.net In-reply-to: mbk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN's message of 20 Feb 1996 00:12:09 GMT