Re: Perl

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Perl
Date: 13:42 on 25 Feb 2004
>    "A good language allows people to say "pshaw" and "ain't" and
>    "Barbara Streisand", no matter how unpleasant the words may sound.

Alas, Perl only allows you to say "pshaw" and "ain't" and "Barbara
Streisand" because they've been designed into the language... and
it doesn't let you say "strooth" or "cobber" or "gruntbugly" because
the Academie Perlais hasn't thought of those. The teachers and users
of the language have little or no hand in its evolution because it's
guided from afar like French, rather than being allowed to grow like
English.

It reminds me of Terry Pratchet's Guild of Joculators, with its hundred
approved puns, "see, what a flexible language, Perl 6 allows you to
say 'marry, nuncle' as well as 'forsooth'"...

There's stuff above here

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