In article <525a15ad$0$29984$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> While I agree with your general thrust, I don't think it's quite so > simple. Perl has a king, Larry Wall, but his design is more or less > "throw everything into the pot, it'll be fine" and consequently Perl is, > well, *weird*, with some pretty poor^W strange design decisions. To be fair to Larry, there were different design drivers working there. Pre-perl, people built humungous shell scripts, duct-taping together little bits of sed, grep, awk, and other command-line tools. What perl did, was make it easier to use the functionality of those disparate tools together in a single language. By holding on to the little bits of syntax from the precursor languages, he kept the result familiar feeling, so Unix sysadmins (who were the main audience for perl) were willing to adopt it. It was wildly successful, not because it was perfect, but because it beat the pants off what came before it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
