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

[Alex Hudson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
> > Sure it is.
> 
> Define?

No ! ;) I like Perl, you don't. So what? This is opinion; not something
which bears examination. I don't care if you don't like Perl, I just pity
you :) :)

> Yes but not only do you get vocabulary you get accustomed to the rules
> of the language re word order and use of grammer. and then distort
> these rules but still end up with decent sentences, which is the same
> with computer languages, just at a different level.

No, it's not the same. Perl is governed by syntactic rules which are
unbreakable - if you break them, your code does not work. If you
understand the rules, there is no Perl you can't understand. Of course, it
is possible to distract the reader via obfuscation, but if you applied the
rules rigorously enough you can still work it out. 

> you mean thers good perl code out there?

Yes. useperl.org, perlmonks.org, perl.com, any of the O'Reilly books, just
take a look around.

Cheers,

Alex.



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