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- From: Mike Nakagawa <miken@isi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:08:00 -0800
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- John Viega wrote:
- >
- > However, I think that it is quite
- > unfortunate that the languages that see the most use and support today
- > cater to the beginning programmer not at all.
- >
- > John
- >
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- >
- But John, this particular occupation has competitions for the most
- unreadable *working* code. The fault lies with its practitioners, not
- with the language. In defense of Perl see
- Camel pg 10: (The paragraph that starts near the top of the page. It
- begins with "But you can write it however you want.")
- Camel pgs 364-374. (Trade offs? What's a trade-off?)
-
- As *programmers*, we choose our sins :-).
-