Re: on Perl

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:34:41 +0200
Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:

Really? It is a very small language and has almost no syntax.
I thought it was one of the easiest languages toe learn ib comparison
to C++ or Java.

*Syntactically* it's very simple, but explicit stack-orientation with
reverse-Polish notation is a *very* different programming paradigm than
practically everything else out there; even Lisp is closer to "normal,"
at least for functional-programming types. And that's before you even
get to the fairly idiosyncratic vocabulary or the type model that's
somehow both explicit and loose...