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- From: ozma@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Mike Zorn)
- 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: 16 Mar 1996 23:07:10 -0800
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- In <ukwx4qxajf.fsf@julie.teleport.com> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
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- >>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Clark <bclark@bclark.is.ge.com> writes:
-
- [. . .]
- >Brian> cgi system...primarily in Perl. I catch myself "feeling" like perl is
- >Brian> the greatest programming language in the world. [. . .]
- Not unreasonable. . .
- >Brian> months I will probably "feel" like C++ or Java or some other unknown
- >Brian> lang are the greatest in the world because that's what I'm doing, at
- >Brian> the time.
- >No you won't. You'll be wishing you were programming in Perl again.
- >Perl actually *is* better.
- >Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
- Now, see, ladies & gentlemen, a testimony from an unbiased
- observer!
-
- I think I heard a rumor that Perl 6.0 is going to include Methods
- that run as mini-applications within certain browsers, and also that it
- may compile into P-code that can be sent along with an HTML document and
- execute on any arbitrary machine.
-
- Mike Zorn ozma@kaiwan.com
- http://www.kaiwan.com/~ozma/
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