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

Bruce Richardson brichardson at lineone.net
Sun Jul 15 17:53:19 UTC 2001


On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:33:40PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> And obviously failed, otherwise you would have been converted :P :)

I do use Perl but I would never describe myself as a convert.  I find it
an ugly language and I use it when I have to.  But I don't use Perl
where something smaller will do.

Awk, for example, is a lovely tool.  Limited, but what it does it
does beautifully.

-- 
Bruce

Remember you're a Womble.
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