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Re: [Plug] Which scripting language?
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That is a good point. I was referring to messyness in terms of it being a
mutt of other languages, but there is the issue of obfuscation. I personally
have taken great delight in finding ways to do things in perhaps one line
that would ordinarily have taken many many lines. Perl can be extremely
concise and to the point.
From: Walt Mankowski <waltman@netaxs.com>
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To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: Re: [Plug] Which scripting language?
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:45:11 -0500
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:16:29AM -0500, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Nicolai Rosen wrote:
>
> > Well if any language could be described as unclean, I guess that'd be
perl.
>
> I think this comes from Perl's origins.
"The very fact that it's possible to write messy programs in Perl
is also what makes it possible to write programs that are cleaner
in Perl than they could ever be in a language that attempts to
enforce cleanliness."
-- Larry Wall, Linux World 1999
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