[mdlug] Forget Perl, I'm switching to LOLCODE!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Wolfger wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3 at hotpop.com> wrote:
>> Perl has, unfortunately, become the modern PL/1, partially because
>> there is such an overlap of features and methods that there are
>> many many many MANY ways of doing the same routine task.
> 
> Yeah... We all know how unusable English is, with all those different
> ways of saying the same thing. How can anybody read a novel?

A novel is readable.  A lot of valid perl code isn't, just
like a lot of valid PL/1 code is likewise unreadable.

> 
>> Standardization of the structure of code fragments is an important
>> component of readability.
> 
> No. Learning the language is an important component. Sentence
> structure is not a requirement. If it was, nobody would understand
> anybody else's run-on sentences, sentence fragments, or dangling
> participles. But much as English professors complain, people can still
> understand one another pretty darned well.
> 
> Perl is a (the only?) computer language written by a linguist. I
> personally find that to be a big plus.
>