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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> You make that sound like a bad thing. Perl is like English. It's not
> pretty, but it does everything you want it to if you're willing to invest
Hey, I'm going to have to take issue with that. English can be a very
beautiful language. It can also be an ugly language, but that doesn't mean
that it can't be amazing poetry in the right hands.
So actually it's a pretty good analogy. :)
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| (...) Another great strength of English is that through years of borrowing ideas from other languages, you end up with many ways to express the same idea, allowing the flexibilty both to make things beautiful and to find just the precise way to (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) It's no toy. (...) It's not a good language to teach Computer Science with. BTW, there is arguably never any "right" way. Just different ways to do things that either work correctly or don't work correctly -- or perform correctly but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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