17 Nov
2021
17 Nov
'21
midnight
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:57 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Douglas McIlroy writes:
I thought Perl was a reaction to exceeding awk's tolerance for abuse?
- Dan C.
APL is a fascinating invention, but can be so
compact as to be
inscrutable. (I confess not to have practiced APL enough to become
fluent.) In the same vein, Haskell's powerful higher-level functions
make middling fragments of code very clear, but can compress large
code to opacity. Jeremy Gibbons, a high priest of functional
programming, even wrote a paper about deconstructing such wonders for
improved readability.
Wasn't Perl created to fill this void?