Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:09:49 +0100
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:

Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

Its syntax is also a horrific mess.

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Which means precisely what?

Far too much pointless punctuation. An interpreter shouldn't need the vartype
signified by $ or @ once its defined, it should already know. And then there
are semantically meaningful underscores (seriously?) and random hacky keywords
such as <STDIN>. I could go on.

Its no surprise Perl has been ditched in favour of Python just about
everywhere for new scripting projects.

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"I say so and I'm an avid Phython fan?"
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Not much of a reason.

It shows the general consensus of which is an easier language to work with.