Twisted wrote: >> 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...
Larry Elmore wrote: > Neither APL nor Snobol nor J are toy or joke languages. Indeed. One wonders where Perl would be if Snobol hadn't preceded it. -- Lew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
