[Gllug] Re: Abstraction, natural language and linguistics. was Re: [Gllug] Website developement

[Alex Hudson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
> > > Why is it everyone thinks perl is so great?
> > 
> > Where do we begin?
> 
> In the beginning is the normal place, but this doesn't necessaryily
> make it the best place.

No, it doesn't, and the vast ranges and expanses that are the plane known
as 'why is perl so great?' show that there may even be more than one
beginning.

> answer a question. What is english?
> 
> Its a high level language used by humans to comunicate and process
> information.
> <snip>
> What is the bigest problem with english?

Straw man. English's problem as a programming language is not that it is
high-level, it's because it's ambiguous. Perl isn't ambiguous, and
therefore your argument is false.

> And yes I did try learning it.

And obviously failed, otherwise you would have been converted :P :)

> I am going to go with the idea of using gcc and the C preprocessor, its
> eactly what I want.

Lovely...

Cheers,

Alex.


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