>>> On 11/2/2011 at 12:02 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Professional programmers will certainly be needed in the future; but > what they need in a programming language is expressive power, not > simplicity achieved by leaving the hard parts out.
Yeah, but they also need a language that (at worst) doesn't actively hinder writing maintainable code. Perl doesn't fare so well by that standard. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
