John Adams writes: > Let me inspect this gift horse's teeth: > > > Internet-based languages such as Perl > > What, exactly, does "Internet-based" mean here?
I assumed he meant a language that's developed primarily on the Internet, rather than being standards-based like C where there are companies that offer commercial alternatives. If you banned Perl, you couldn't trivially port your scripts to a language whose compiler/interpreter was sold to you by a commercial vendor. Nat
