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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 12 May 1993 05:43:24 MST
Via: uk.ac.manchester.computer-science; Wed, 12 May 1993 10:10:04 +0100
From: Steve Holden <steve@dtc.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 May 93 09:49:06 BST
Message-Id: <9082.9305120849@desktop.desktop.co.uk>
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: runtime debugger and the Icon fan club.
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
"lwall (Larry Wall) <lwall@netlabs.uucp>" writes ...
> Certainly, if you're willing to place that kind of syntactic load on a
> newline. I don't happen to be, probably for irrational reasons--I once
> got a bad taste in my mouth from the way awk does it.
Come now, this is supposed to be a discussion about _programming_
languages :-) Awk may be Turing-complete, but I don't regard it as
anything other than a hacking tool. And, as a matter of fact, I
now use Icon in preference, because the only message I ever seemed
to get from awk was the well-known
awk: syntax error near line n
awk: bailing out near line n
where n was usually less than three!
regards
Steve