language aesthetics

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Mike Rovner wrote:
>>[Perl] leads straight to madness, in an orgy of syntax and notation like the
>>programming world has never seen before.  Oh well, we'll see...
> 
> Why, IMHO APL was similar mad and insane :)

It's a very different flavour of insanity, though, IMO.
Perl is just a random hodgepodge, whereas APL is a
distillate of elegance, conciseness and consistency
that's too potent for human consumption...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg