[sf-perl] ugh another knock on perl

[Greg Lindahl]

Best of all was the most-well-designed language for novices:

integer i = 0
repeat 10 times
i = i + 1
end

A return to COBOL in begin comp-sci classes?

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:41:11PM -0800, Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
> I agree, it's a terrible example (and several commenters on the article
> point that out).  Even though I haven't written any C in 10 years or so
> I still cringe every time I see one of those.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Kevin Frost wrote:
> > And of course his example of Perl is this:
> > 
> >    for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
> >    }
> > 
> > I can never tell whether "int" is random syntax or whether I'm speaking
> > the wrong $LANGUAGE.
> > 
> > 
> > On Jan 6, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
> > 
> > > That stupid study about how perl is worse than random syntax is popping
> > > up all over the place:
> > > 
> > > http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665735/why-arent-computer-programming-languages-designed-better
> > > --  
> > > Philip J. Hollenback
> > > philiph at pobox.com
> > > www.hollenback.net
> > > 
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