Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Inq: Language and Reified Execution Environment Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:57:23 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <47c0c73d-898f-492c-9f56-bbbba7259a5d@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net hUAAE8NjlJEm5rYKDVdI4IAA9+hCJKIRgmv4PTqZD5JhljS3GQRiSj+3dV/rmUyS2AQfnzpxbaKiHLFRZD1CiUdLMVFRDJ215IMoRKm6Z2xQmLcKsP4xZmsE5jx3NKsc NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 00:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="neMok5p7lxT9wu5zWf6lujSKmk7GqKyGA6VmMOn8nY/Z56fNu4uJ/JLEYzJdIBq2f1cVbDTOLtPyjAkcCYwCjLeTlQ6MfmR9mBAkvC1CBZMKEpDdYD5CC+cspSEGt+KG"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:E+qg9vzTBMs5wB+2yfDq59/4sNA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4622 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Tom wrote: > >> There are a large number of applications whose purpose is to accept data, >> transform it, move it somewhere else and show it to users. > That’s what Perl was developed for. That's what EVERY computer language was developed for, so your statement is trivially true, Lawrence. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg