[geeks] Go Apple....

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:32:47AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Perhaps you don't understand the fundamental problem here.  A good
> high-level language makes it harder to write bad code, not easier.  Perl
> was more or less designed with the likes of the obfuscated code contests
> in mind.  Have you never heard Damian Conway talk about his rejected
> entry to the Perl contest, SelfGOL?  It's a fascinating program, but
> would be totally impossible to write in such an unreadable way in
> smalltalk, or even lisp.

Yes, but you dont *have* to write horribly unreadable code with it...

Its not the greatest thing, but its fine for "quick and dirty" stuff.

Bill

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