OT: Ultimate Language Syntax Cleanness Comparison

[holger krekel]

Jack Diederich wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:20:53PM +0100, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is it: the Ultimate Language Syntax Cleanness Comparison!
> > 
> > Python 5th, Ruby 10th, Perl 17th...
> <snip vim keybindings>
> 
> If I write a language and include really crappy companion vim bindings 
> can I win? *wink*
> 
> That said, the fact that a BNF grammar is included with python says alot
> [of good things] about python.  IIRC the last time this was true - or
> even possible - with perl was sometime back in 4.x

I was actually quite surprised to find out (together with a perl-friend)
that there is no easy way to parse perl. All the methods involve 
evaluating/executing it at the same time.  Cool, isn't it. 

    holger