Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 16:45 on 16 Dec 2006
* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-16 14:35]:
> >When we were first taught programming (in Pascal), some
> >students complained the language was using English. The
> >professor responded that "computer languages don't use
> >English. They use arbitrary keywords that just happen to
> >resemble English words".
> 
> Yes, but Perl's *different*, right? It's not one of these
> heartless mathematical programming languages, it was designed
> by a *linguist*.

That doesn't mean it's supposed to be English, only that it's
supposed to take linguistic principles into account.

> Am I bitter? Me? Maybe. Permanently scarred by Perl 4, anyway.

That explains a lot. Much as I like Perl 5, that's in no small
part because I stay away from the Perl 4 era parts of the
language. Perl 4 is... not very nice, to be charitable. (Although
I suppose it's much like what you said about POSIX sh: the
alternatives of that era were even more hateful.)

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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