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Article #4337Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
From: David Hopwood
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:33
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:33
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In article <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, Matthew B. Kennel <kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov> wrote: >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 (Haskell): cancount n = "I can count to "++(show n)++"\n" concat (map cancount [1..10]) David Hopwood david.hopwood@lmh.ox.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sable.ox.ac.uk!lady0065 From: lady0065@sable.ox.ac.uk (David Hopwood) 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) Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:33:56 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Sender: david.hopwood@lmh.ox.ac.uk Message-ID: <4ge7bk$4vq@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4e54vc$7sk@orac.mon.rnb.com> <ukd97hwzkc.fsf_-_@linda.teleport.com> <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk