Larry Wall essay is very good. Thank you for link.
--- In [email protected], Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > PERL 6 is available for the discerning programmer and a compiler > bootstrapped with PERL 6 will be available in future. > > PERL or Practical Extraction and Reporting Language was invented 20 > years ago by Larry Wall, a student of linguistics. > > Thats a long time for a language to hold the attention of the audience > and prove its usefulness many times over. Just ask any system > administrator or an engineer working on automation how neat PERL is. > > One of the key aspects of PERL design is 'there is more than one way > to do it' and thatswhy it is used extensively in different domains. > > PERL is modelled on human languages. Human languages are complex ! > > Larry Wall talks about 'Diligence, Patience and Humility' in his essay > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/larry.html > > For more background material, please see > > Overview of PERL 6 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6 > > What is PERL 6 > http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/970 > > Over of PERL > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl > > About Larry Wall > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall > > > PERL started the trend for hacker designed languages today lead by > Ruby, Lua and now Arc. > > Have a nice day ! > > -- > thanks > Saifi. >
