On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > In particular, Perl code looks more like line > >> > noise than like code from any known programming language. ;)) > > >> Hmm - I know of APL and SNOBOL. > > >> -- > >> Lew > > > TECO editor commands. I don't have direct experience with TECO, but > > I've heard that a common diversion was to type random characters on > > the command line, and see what the editor would do. > > > -- Paul > > J > > http://www.jsoftware.com/
Oh come on! Toy languages (such as any set of editor commands) and joke languages (ala Intercal) don't count, even if they are technically Turing-complete. ;) Nor does anything that was designed for the every-character-at-a- premium punch-card era, particularly if it is, or rhymes with, "COBOL". Those have excuses, like it's a joke or it's a constrained environment. Perl, unfortunately, has no such excuses. If there were such a thing as "embedded Perl", I'd have to hesitate here, but since there isn't... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
