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From: Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
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> If the language can't be explained in 50 pages, it's no good.

If it's not possible to clearly describe the core of a computer
programming language in fifty pages, then it has probably been
embellished with features, unnecessary to the language proper, to help
it compete in the lame one-size-fits-all strand of programming
language debate.  In this respect Perl is a cautionary example, having
no coherent core that I could tell, just a cobbled-together collection
of features intended to try to replace single purpose programs. (But
then again, "those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered
by Perl.")

Jason Catena