Re: OT: Auxlangs (was Re: "Esperanto V.2")
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 27, 2006, 13:45 |
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On 3/27/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> > Whereas the corresponding program in Perl - the poster child for
> > illegibility - is a single line that says 'print "Hello, world!\n";'.
> > The only things you have to explain are the \n and maybe the
> > semicolon.
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> Can't help myself - in Python that would be 'print "Hello, world!"', not
> even needing to explain a semicolon or a line shift :)
Yes,yes, but Python is claimed by its supporters to be highly legible.
I deliberately chose Perl because of its reputation for illegibility.
(Perl6, btw, will also have "say", which will automatically append the
newline, as well as "print", which will continue not to.)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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