Twisted wrote: > On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> In particular, Perl code looks more like line >>>>> noise than like code from any known programming language. ;)) >>>> Hmm - I know of APL and SNOBOL. >>>> -- >>>> Lew >>> TECO editor commands. I don't have direct experience with TECO, but >>> I've heard that a common diversion was to type random characters on >>> the command line, and see what the editor would do. >>> -- Paul >> J >> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/ > > Oh come on! Toy languages (such as any set of editor commands) and > joke languages (ala Intercal) don't count, even if they are > technically Turing-complete. ;) > > Nor does anything that was designed for the every-character-at-a- > premium punch-card era, particularly if it is, or rhymes with, > "COBOL". > > Those have excuses, like it's a joke or it's a constrained > environment. Perl, unfortunately, has no such excuses. If there were > such a thing as "embedded Perl", I'd have to hesitate here, but since > there isn't...
Neither APL nor Snobol nor J are toy or joke languages. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
