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

[Alex Hudson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
> Perl is still not great! no matter where you start and on what plane
> you are on.

Sure it is.

(what a sound arguement :)

> But by doing things in so many different ways you acquire the
> ambiguity

No you don't, you aquire vocabulary. Different. Ambiguity means that you
cannot determine the precise meaning of something no matter how much of
the language you know; having many different methods means you need to
know more to understand more...

> > And obviously failed, otherwise you would have been converted :P :)
> 
> Couldn't get my head round it.

Heh, I knew it :) It has to be said though, there is a lot of poor Perl
code out there.

Cheers,

Alex.



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