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- From: lady0065@sable.ox.ac.uk (David Hopwood)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:33:56 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- In article <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu>,
- Matthew B. Kennel <kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov> wrote:
- >Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com) wrote:
- >: >>>>> "John" == John Viega <jtv2j@mamba.cs.virginia.edu> writes:
- >
- >: John> People bitch about the readability of Perl non-stop. In fact, I have
- >: John> heard the joke, "Perl, the only language you can uuencode, and not
- >: John> notice" twice this week around the department.
- >
- >: OK, now which do you find most readable...
-
- This (Haskell):
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- cancount n = "I can count to "++(show n)++"\n"
- concat (map cancount [1..10])
-
- David Hopwood
- david.hopwood@lmh.ox.ac.uk
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