[CLUE-Talk] On hackers, productivity, and languages

[Matt Gushee]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:17:55PM -0600, Jeff Cann wrote:
> 
> OTH - I found that people who like the defined rules of something like java 
> (or cobol) often *hate* perl.  By comparision to spoken languages:  if Java 
> is English, then English speakers look at perl like it's Chinese.

You're suggesting English grammar is well-defined and consistent? Man,
you better quit smokin' that bad crack, Jefe.

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