On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
Larry
[ <> for array dimension placeholder ] That might confuse users of languages that were not C-syntax-influenced, who think that '*<>*' means "not equal". But surely old Modula hacks like me are in a minority in the Perl world (and Pascal programmers would never do Perl, would they? Algol, anybody?) So maybe I'm the only one who runs the risk of that particular confusion. :-)
What about BASIC? Aren't all the little kids today raised on BASIC? :)
Only if their parents are evil...
I was raised on BASIC and look what happened - now I'm writing Perl Quiz of the Week solutions in Haskell!
