Re: Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-12-24 18:15:34 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > No doubt it's powerful, and you can do powerful things. The problem is that > the syntax is so ideosyncratic, that I'm so relieved to get someting finally > to do what I need, that I can't be bothered expressing it in a very concise > way. W

Re: Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:15:34PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 24/12/11 17:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >>Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large > >>PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's

Re: Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24/12/11 17:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's IMHO the worst programming language ever invented. Totally non-intuitive.

Re: Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large > PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's IMHO the worst > programming language ever invented. Totally non-intuitive. I completely disagree. It's a very power