A great Alan Kay quote

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-02-09, James <spiralx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Surely
>
> "Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then
> being a real problem in the longer term."
>
> is better lol ;)

That was the other one I really liked, and Perl was the first
language I thought of when I saw the phrase "agglutination of
features".  C++ was the second one.

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