Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:39:20 +0000
Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> boring babbled:

with <87wmighu4i.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> Rainer
Weikusat wrote:

Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:25:05 +0100 Rainer Weikusat
<rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:

Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> writes:

On 2024-04-07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:01:43 +0000, Javier wrote:

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Its syntax is also a horrific mess.

Which means precisely what?

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You're arguing with Unix Haters Handbook.  You've already lost.

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ITYF the people who dislike Perl are the ones who actually like the unix
way of having simple daisychained tools instead of some lump of a language
that does everything messily.

Perl is a general-purpose programming language, just like C or Java (or
Python or Javascript or Rust or $whatnot). This means it can be used to
implement anything (with some practical limitation for anything) and not
that it "does everything".