Porridge 0.0

Neil Padgen neil.padgen at mon.bbc.co.uk
Tue Jun 3 07:16:38 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 6:58 am, Ben Finney wrote:
> 
> Porridge 0.0 announced
> ----------------------
> 
> Due to the extreme readability and reusability of most Python code,
> a fork has been announced that will correct this rampant code
> quality: Porridge.
> 
> Building on the success of Python to date, Porridge will correct all
> the flaws that have been raised by opponents of Python.
> 
> Features of Porridge 0.0 will include:
> 
>   - All standard library functions will be duplicated at least three
>     times, in disparate modules, with different names and argument
>     lists
> 
>   - No indentation allowed; blocks are delimited by common consent
>   among
>     your programming peers
> 
>   - [... I'm sure others can fill in this feature list ...]
> 

Why bother to rewrite Perl though?

-- Neil




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