Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-31 Thread Erik Steffl
Ilya Martynov wrote: > > JR> All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you > JR> think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you > JR> weren't looking :) > JR> On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just > JR> about any lang

Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-31 Thread Ilya Martynov
JR> All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you JR> think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you JR> weren't looking :) JR> On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just JR> about any language that will run in a forth envi

Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:54:24AM -0500, Shawn Garbett wrote: > > Coding discipline will develop maintainable code in just about any > language, including Forth (although it noted special merit on the > writting unmaintainable code site). > > Shawn Garbett All you have to understand about fo

OT: Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-30 Thread Shawn Garbett
D-Man wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0500, Shawn Garbett wrote: | Maintenance issues aside, if you want an "empirical" study comparing | perl to python, as well as C/C++ and Java, check the following link: | http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/cgi-bin/psview?document=/ira/2000/5 | It's