The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Functional Notations

[Lew]

Twisted wrote:
>> Oh come on! Toy languages (such as any set of editor commands) and
>> joke languages (ala Intercal) don't count, even if they are
>> technically Turing-complete. ;)
>>
>> Nor does anything that was designed for the every-character-at-a-
>> premium punch-card era, particularly if it is, or rhymes with,
>> "COBOL".
>>
>> Those have excuses, like it's a joke or it's a constrained
>> environment. Perl, unfortunately, has no such excuses. If there were
>> such a thing as "embedded Perl", I'd have to hesitate here, but since
>> there isn't...

Larry Elmore wrote:
> Neither APL nor Snobol nor J are toy or joke languages.

Indeed.  One wonders where Perl would be if Snobol hadn't preceded it.

-- 
Lew