On 01/24/12 00:41, Bart Hazes wrote:
I have used a number of languages and have found only one I really
disliked, that being perl. It is hard for me to imagine that this
language was developed by a linguist yet in my eyes it is the least
natural language from human comprehension point of view. In contrast,
python is much more intuitive and should be very suitable for the
tasks you describe.
www.cs.siue.edu/~astefik/papers/StefikPlateau2011.pdf
An Empirical Comparison of the Accuracy Rates of Novices using the
Quorum, Perl, and Randomo Programming Languages
A. Stefik, S. Siebert, M. Stefik, K. Slattery
Abstract: "... Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately
than those using a language designed by chance."
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