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

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From: Mike Zorn
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 07:07

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In <ukwx4qxajf.fsf@julie.teleport.com> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Clark <bclark@bclark.is.ge.com> writes:

   [. . .]
>Brian> cgi system...primarily in Perl.  I catch myself "feeling" like perl is 
>Brian> the greatest programming language in the world.    [. . .]
   Not unreasonable. . .
>Brian> months I will probably "feel" like C++ or Java or some other unknown
>Brian> lang are the greatest in the world because that's what I'm doing, at
>Brian> the time. 
>No you won't.  You'll be wishing you were programming in Perl again.
>Perl actually *is* better.
>Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
    Now, see, ladies & gentlemen, a testimony from an unbiased
observer!

    I think I heard a rumor that Perl 6.0 is going to include Methods
that run as mini-applications within certain browsers, and also that it
may compile into P-code that can be sent along with an HTML document and
execute on any arbitrary machine.

Mike Zorn      ozma@kaiwan.com
  http://www.kaiwan.com/~ozma/

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From: ozma@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Mike Zorn)
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: 16 Mar 1996 23:07:10 -0800
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