Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language

From: Frank J. Lhota (NOSPAM.lhota.adarose_at_verizon.net)
Date: 02/06/04


Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:49:40 GMT


"Joona I Palaste" <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
news:bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi...
> ... But C and C++ are a
> breeze compared to the likes of Perl, Python and Lisp.

I find Perl particularly obtuse. Perl reminds me of those comics where
obscene language is replaced by a string of random puctuation characters.
Frankly, I don't understand how Perl has caught on when there are more
powerful, and more readable, string processing languages available.



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