[Gllug] Website developement

[David Freeman]

 --- Dean S Wilson <dean.wilson3 at virgin.net> wrote: > ---- Original
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> From: "David Freeman" <freemadi at yahoo.co.uk>
> 
> > I'm sorry, no matter what people say Perl is a write only language.
> 
> <-----Paragraphs about the sun rising and spoons not existing
> snipped----->
> 
> A lot of the languages that we hear about on a daily basis are based
> around a C like syntax. Java, Perl, PHP, C and numerous others all
> get
> their basic statements and constructs from the same place, I don't
> really see why you'd have so many issues with Perl if you do C or
> Java
> for example. The only problems I can see are the default variables
> but
> if you don't like those do it explicitly.

Was C based on B or BCPL? and wasn't that in turn based on a language
beginining with A (ada pos?) I think it was the weird varibles with
things like $%&£@ etc... appering so much which confused me.

>     Dean
> PS I'd be interested in another poster frequency list, I bet I've
> dropped a few places after this week :)

Oops, subtle way of saying I post to much:o) Sorry if I have being
opsting alot recently.

Thanks

D


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