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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
Message-ID: <11584@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 25 Feb 91 22:29:57 GMT
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In article <3021@charon.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
: If you want to see for yourself what the advantagesare of using
: indentation for grouping, you can now fetch the brand new Python
: language from alt.sources or an archive (it is stored in pub in
: wuarchive.wustl.edu) and learn Python -- an alternative to Perl with
: reasonable syntax, if I may say so.

You may say so.

I personally think Perl's syntax is reasonable, but tastes do differ.  I've
certainly never claimed that Perl was beautiful.  But you can write
beautiful poetry in an ugly language--look at English.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov