Re: Perl

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From: Chris Nandor
Subject: Re: Perl
Date: 17:05 on 13 Sep 2003
At 09:38 -0500 2003.09.13, Peter da Silva wrote:
>Particularly since the vast majority of the things that I object to in
>Perl do absolutely nothing to increase the basic expressive quality of
>the language.

Expressive quality is in the eye of the beholder, no?  This appears to be
about as fruitful as trying to convince someone that Chagall is a great
artist.  No thanks.


>I suppose you can be forgiven for that impression, but if you'll have a look
>at the original message you'll see that was only one of the five points,
>and none of the others are "particular uses of Perl".

It was inferred, whether you intended it or not.  That's the point.  You
are attacking things using words like "awkward" when these things are not
awkward when used well, assuming the person looking at it knows Perl.
You're either looking at things you don't understand, or you are looking at
poorly written code.

Either way, this discussion is increasingly tiresome.  Cheers,

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