Re[2]: Perl is evil, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby, Python is the way to go!

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:01 AM 7/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>
>PG> Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it> writes:
>
>
> >> Well, that's precisely the kind of thing where Perl is being
> >> (ab)used for, and another language would be better :)
>
>PG> what do you mean by "that" and "where"?
>
>Creating an editor, for example.

i know -) but tk has some great stuff in it, so the perl/tk code is less 
than the original modula code

Oj, sorry I gave that impression ... guess it should have been
>just a private mail to Hans :\

never mind; concerning languages: python is probably ok, but i dislike the 
indentation idea; smalltalk is ok too, but i only played with it, long ago 
(the original smalltalk books are great), i've read about eiffel and like 
the language, will look into ruby when i come across, like lisp because 
it's clean, like modula because i've done a lot in it; i really like tex 
but occasionally dislike it due to some missing features; i definitely like 
metapost; i dislike c because of the syntax, but c++ looks better; i have 
no opinion yet about java but i dislike the slowness of nts; if i remember 
well, i liked the machine code of the 1802 processor, etc etc

Hans
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