Uglliness scale: Python <<< awk << p*** < SNOBOL4

[Robin Becker]

In message <19990816205639474.AAA315.413 at max41127.izone.net.au>, John
Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes
>On 14 Aug 99, at 19:12, Robin Becker wrote:
>
>> I once described perl as being like awk on
>> steroids and lsd
>
>Actually perl is more like SNOBOL4 on sedatives.
>
I still have my snobol4 manual. All sorts of memories with that.
>There is nothing new under the sun. SNOBOL4, which was up to version 3 
>by 1969, had goodies like arrays (like Python lists, but with multiple 
>dimensions that were fixed when the array was created), tables (like 
>Python dictionaries), user-defined functions, user-defined data-types 
...
-- 
Robin Becker