Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Any experience on teaching Perl programmers Java Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <9gn5f8FmomU4@mid.individual.net> <251020111003268194%jimsgibson@gmail.com> <18264299.15.1319598002820.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prap37> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1319662750 25179 84.45.235.129 (26 Oct 2011 20:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:59:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9218 On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:02 -0700, Lew wrote: > Calling data-access control an "infatuation" doesn't make it a bad > thing. Cute analogies with rabid defenders of one's home don't make an > engineering argument, either. > Larry Wall has a somewhat ironic, self-deprecating sense of humour and merely meant that Perl has much less dependence on variable scoping than some other languages. Self-deprecating because it was he who said that PERL is an acronym for "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" and, in the early days, described it as the result of combining features of the Bourne shell, awk, grep and several a few UNIX filters such as tr wc into one scripting language. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |