Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 19:55 on 15 Dec 2006
> As long as it takes? How would you think Dutch/Polish/French/Russian/...
> would like to beat you back with all the `English' verbs in their script
> that uses variable with native-language names?
> 
> use English should never even have been invented. It should die a horrible
> death.

Amen, brother!  Many "improvement" facets of Perl are equivalent to
painting over a peeling wallpaper.  It kind of helps, for a while.

As for Perl's "natural language design", *groan*  It isn't close to
my natural language, that's for certain (show me 15 cases of nouns,
then it looks like "natural" to me).  Perl has some words that are
close to English, but that's about the limit of it.  Let's not start
comparing Perl (or most any programming language) with *real* natural
languages.





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