On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 14:30, Ranga Nathan wrote: > Perl sure has some quirky syntax as some of it is derived from C. > Scheme is awesome but cryptic. Scheme is even more powerful than Perl, but > you have to rise above the mortals, you have to be a geek.
Scheme sounds good. I've never used "functional languages" and scheme
sounds the current reference version to learn.
> Python... hmm a language where indentation is part of the syntax?? ..
Awwwwk yes.
> Ruby, I hear a lot of good things...
> REXX, I have a lot of good things.... but smells mainframe. I dont like
> any of the mainframe languages. They suffer from history too much
As alluded to it's "hand parsed" meaning it doesn't do incremental
scans/parses matching BNF, but does the tokenization scan and the
parsing separately. This makes it faster than many other languages
(most modern scripting languages to a compile before execute anyway) but
makes it irregular in its conventions if you aren't used to it. This is
the "mainframe smell" to which you allude ... and the fact that it too
lacks many modern conveniences/conventions.
-- TWZ
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