The C is dead, long live the Perl
Mike Coleman
mkc+dated+1014094764.aa241f at mathdogs.com
Sat Feb 9 04:56:11 CST 2002
DCT Jared Smith <jared at dctkc.com> writes:
> [...] what I mean is I thought that Perl was the fountain from which springs
> all other contemporary languages... its what I still think, in fact.
Hmm. Are there *any* other computer languages that could be considered to be
derived from Perl? Parts of Ruby, maybe. A small bits of Python perhaps.
The biggest contribution of Perl (and a big one it was) was a concrete
demonstration that interpreted languages could be a fast and practical way to
get things done on Unix.
If I were going to pick a fountain, though, it'd be Lisp, at least for
interpreted languages. Lisp was the archetype for those that followed, and
(unfortunately) none have yet to match it.
Mike
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