To paraphrase Ecclesiastes 12:12 without disrespect:
Of the making of languages there is no end, and much learning [of
them] is a weariness of the flesh.
There is a case to be made for adding to the facilities of existing
languages instead of inventing new ones, and the quality of the
facilities
As Tom Ross, might say: "What? As the language of the future?"
The only computer language that I've ever looked at and really hated was
RPG II. With EasyTrieve Plus running a distant second. EZTP isn't really
bad, I just don't like yet another reporting language. I've been forced to
learn Earl (f
I liked how Larry defined Java as the COBOL of the 21st century. It is so true
ZA
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On 1/10/2013 8:46 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:52:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
Taking the p**s again Shane! ;-)
Sorry ? - what do you mean, "again".
FWIW, Perl 6 seems to have smoothed out a lot of the rough edges.
Never having bothered with Perl, I attended a Linux con
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:52:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>Taking the p**s again Shane! ;-)
Sorry ? - what do you mean, "again".
>FWIW, Perl 6 seems to have smoothed out a lot of the rough edges.
Never having bothered with Perl, I attended a Linux conference in Canberra in
2005. Went to a Perl
