language aesthetics

[Nick Vargish]

Fernando Perez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:

> But reading that page gave me the feeling that perl is going down a
> road which leads straight to madness, in an orgy of syntax and
> notation like the programming world has never seen before.

I think you do the word 'orgy' a grave disservice, but I agree with
your point. :^)

Nick

-- 
#include<stdio.h> /* SigMask 0.3 (sig.c) 19990429 PUBLIC DOMAIN "Compile Me" */
int main(c,v)char *v;{return !c?putchar(*v-1)&&main(0,v+ /* Tweaks welcomed. */
1):main(0,"Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAqbusjpu/ofu?\v\1");}  /* build: cc -o sig sig.c */