Hi
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Raja Subramanian
<rajasuper...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You can always ask perl to "use English".
>
I have seen people use that. But never used it myself. Also, it
seems to be less commonly used. Most discussions on the Internet do
not seem to use it.
> Mathematics is full of symbols and it is very beautiful once you
> understand their meaning. Perl is no different, and the symbols
> are well chosen - Larry Wall is a linguist and considerable effort
> has gone into these details.
>
I agree that considerable discussions might have gone into
it. But may be mathematics might not be the right analogy. But again,
Perl was designed a couple of decades ago, and given its age, it might
have been the well chosen. Only that, in my opinion, it doesn't look
elegant. It does its job well, no doubt about that.
> Learning a programming language is much more than the
> semantics. Suggest the focus of our discussion is directed
> towards deeper topics.
>
It had been mostly towards better things until this trend of
personal attacks started. But yes, there is more to learning a
language than its semantics. Thanks
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Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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- Swami Vivekananda
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