Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Slagging off other languages :-) [Was Re: The Camel book] Message-ID: <27C6E425.29A9@tct.uucp> Date: 23 Feb 91 21:52:36 GMT References: <288@carssdf.UUCP> <123376@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Feb21.082228.7284@tsa.co.uk> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 13 According to domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop): >In article <123376@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: >> I keep telling people that COBOL is a BETTER language than FORTRAN. >> ... MOVE CORRESPONDING is an idea I have not seen in any other language. > >Can't resist this irrelevancy: SQL, another truly wonderful language, >has, in effect, a MOVE (really copy) CORRESPONDING. And PL/I has assignment "by name". (Yes, you spell it out!) -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "It's not a security hole, it's a SECURITY ABYSS." -- Christoph Splittgerber (with reference to the upage bug in Interactive UNIX and Everex ESIX)