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

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From: Michael J. Stok
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:47
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In article <4ge7bk$4vq@news.ox.ac.uk>,
David Hopwood <lady0065@sable.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>This (Haskell):
>
>cancount n = "I can count to "++(show n)++"\n"
>concat (map cancount [1..10])

Usually I resist the temptation to jump into this type of discussion, but 
would this perl be considered similar in spirit to the haskell?

  use English;

  sub cancount {"I can count to $ARG\n"}
  print map cancount, 1 .. 10;

Mike
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Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
Date: 21 Feb 1996 07:47:41 -0500
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