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Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)

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From: Stephen P Potter
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
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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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From: spp@syrinx.hideout.com (Stephen P Potter)
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Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
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