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- From: jirib@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Jiri Baum)
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- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Followup-To: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,alt.lang.intercal
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 01:14:43 GMT
- Organization: Monash University
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- Jan-Pieter Cornet (johnpc@xs4all.nl) wrote:
- ... [discussion about best readable language] ...
- > No, you got it all totally wrong. I think this is the best readable
- > (in Tri-INTERCAL):
- ...
- [INTERCAL code snipped - 43 lines to count to 10 nicely]
- ...
- > Anyone else will simply be too scared to touch this code. So you can be
- > pretty sure nobody changes it behind your back.
- ...
-
- I report changing it to count to 15, but I guess that's a trivial change.
- Similarly boring is to have it get the limit from stdin...
-
- ...
- > In fact, you can be pretty sure you won't change it either after you
- > wrote it, because you will probably have forgotten how the program
- > works 5 minutes after you wrote it. So any luser nagging for extra
- > features afterwards, is SOL.
- ...
-
- Could you change it to count in decimal? Please? Pretty please?
-
- ...
- > The other major advantage is... the above code took me about 3 hours
- > to write. Compare this to the 10 to 30 seconds it takes to write a
- ...
-
- And making one that counts in decimal is likely to take much longer still.
-
- ...
- > PS: this article contains some strange usage of the words "best readable"
- > that you probably weren't previously aware of :)
- ...
-
- One thing I like about INTERCAL (any variant) is that it's the only
- language I can think of where a program may legally have the words
- DON'T PANIC
- at the top in large friendly letters.
-
-
- ...
- > Linux -- "It's computing, Jim, but not as we know it"
- ...
-
- Hmm, I wonder if the same goes for INTERCAL :-)
-
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- Jiri
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