> So what, dare I even ask, do these giants of computer science think > of Perl? :)
The ones I've talked to sort of like Perl (if they've ever heard of it... it's a c++ monoculture around here). I did talk the head of department into throwing Ruby at his Software Engineering class, but I think that was sort of a disaster. Oh well. It's fairly obvious to me why people claim LISP is write-only. They don't understand the syntax and can't be bothered to take the time/talent to grok it properly. So, they ridicule it to make their own inadequacy seem acceptable. Seriously, how hard is it to read a parse tree? "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
