Vijay Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I always expected Perl to be leading the way, *the* language that broke
> new ground..."where only camels dared to tread..."
Er... that strikes me as a strange expectation. I can't think of much in
Perl that hasn't appeared elsewhere earlier. Perl makes a lot of already
developed ideas practical, but breaking new ground isn't really its forte.
If you want to look at languages that are breaking new ground, I recommend
Objective Caml, or Haskell, or Mercury, or even Eiffel. Languages like
Perl and Python are really almost entirely just attempting to make
practical ideas already explored in other practical and experimental
languages.
Perl is far more practical than experimental.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
