> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 04:16:33PM +0100, C E Macfarlane wrote: > > > as for arcane-ness of language and difficulty in reading > > it's about on a par with The Bible! > > That's what everyone thinks about languages that they are too damned > lazy to learn.
Laziness doesn't enter into it, the list of languages I've already learnt includes others, such as Assembler (for three different processors), that were much harder to learn than Perl would ever be, but the fact remains that, for a high-level language, its syntax is unnecessarily difficult and obscure. The whole point of high-level languages, the reason they were invented, was make to programming more human-readable and therefore more understandable, but Perl bucks that trend. But, since you are obviously spoiling for a fight, why should anyone listen to someone who has confessed to being a part of putting all that massive bloat in BBC web pages - presumably therefore you will feel at home bloating my spam folder henceforth. Bye, bye. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
