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Re^2: Honest question about Perl, Python and Rubyby doom (Deacon) |
on Feb 11, 2015 at 20:08 UTC ( [id://1116387]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Pascal was a remarkably bad language that had tremendous amounts of computer-industry hype going for it for a number of years. Consequently programmers of a certain age (such as myself) are nearly immune to hype-- the latest and greatest uber-cool languages are sometimes useful, but often just a pain in the ass (like, say, Java?). If you want to understand why Perl is so loosey-goosey, you need to understand how badly programming in Pascal sucked. The one is a reaction to the other.
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