Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Martijn Lievaart
On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:07:41 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > There *are* programming languages worse than PHP. Have you ever tried > britescript? Have you tried MUMPS? :-) M4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-08-17 Thread Martijn Lievaart
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:46:18 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote: >> The 1401 was a decent enough processor for many industrial tasks -- at >> that time -- but for general programming it was sheer horror. > > But the easiest machine language /ever/. True, very true. M4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-08-16 Thread Martijn Lievaart
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:33:30 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote: > Actually, I was thinking of the 1401. But both the 1620 and the 1401 > (without the optional Advanced Programming Feature) share the basic > omission of any instruction that could do call-and-return without > hard-coding an adcon with the

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: exists already

2007-07-23 Thread Martijn Lievaart
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:17:00 -0700, Xah Lee wrote: > About a month ago, i posted a message about modernization of emacs. I > enlisted several items that i think emacs should adapt. And you are posting this to compl.lang.perl because.?? F'up set. M4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis