Many language designers appear to be more concerned with how easily a
language can be parsed by its compiler than by its users; thus the
proliferation of arcane tokens (,),{,},[,],\=,<>,->,;,:,... that give us double
vision. :-)
Leslie Turriff
State of Missouri
Information Technology Services Division
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mark Post
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 13:29
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Subject: Re: SLightly O/T Perl
>>> 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
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