I studied linguistics in college, as an undergrad, and have always been fascinated with how programming languages are used and how they evolve. The creator of Perl claims that Perl is close to a natural language in a variety of ways and that was one of his design goals. But if you have ever had to read Perl code, it is not easy to read at & it's hard to believe it's like a natural language. Most unnatural to look at. Although I guess that's the point. Once you learn the Perl idiom and slang, it makes more sense.
Transcript however seems to be a nice balance of being natural-language-like, and with enough strictness to prevent it from turning into an idiomatic train wreck like Perl. Any articles or links out there about the history of transcript/metacard/xtalk with respect to it's syntax and linguistic issues? Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
