Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Steve Lamb]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:22:07 GMT, Grant Edwards <nobody at nowhere.nohow> wrote:
>But in many, many programs (at least in the embedded and
>process control areas where I do most of my work) program
>objects _do_ correspond to real world objects.

    Granted, and in those cases it is appropriate to remember the limitations
of the physical world.  However in programming languages, peach.debone is
valid, as is waffle-iron.dial.  :)

>I don't understand the analogy.  Pens are not responsible for
>parsing English sentances and proofreading them.  They're
>responsible for leaving a visible trail when they're dragged
>across a paper surface.

    Exactly.  

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