Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
by goto11 on Friday March 27, 2020 @04:42AM
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Yeah, Wall knew what he was doing. He didn't try to make it look like a human language, he tried to make it work more like a human language.
Another significant experiment in Perl was embracing the idea that everybody write in their own personal dialect or subset of the language. Again, the conclusion seem to be that this is a really bad idea since someone else will have to maintain the code eventually. But nevertheless it is valuable that the experiment have been tried. Python took some important lessons from that.
Another significant experiment in Perl was embracing the idea that everybody write in their own personal dialect or subset of the language. Again, the conclusion seem to be that this is a really bad idea since someone else will have to maintain the code eventually. But nevertheless it is valuable that the experiment have been tried. Python took some important lessons from that.