in reply to Worse Than Regexes

Everytime someone complains about perl's syntax, I smugly reply "Complex powerful concepts occasionally require complex powerful syntax", and then chuckle knowingly.
Observations:
  1. Based on the thought above, I think Common Lisp is to perl as Superman is to the common man.
  2. I also like that the Common Lisp steering commitee seems to be the clearly titled "X3J13".
  3. They seem to have some knowledge of the brown-bagger beauty of this syntax : Here is a blow-by-blow description of the parts of this format string
  4. For more fun, search out "obfuscated lisp" on google.

thanks, Dominus!

2001-12-14 Edit by Corion : Added missing </OL> tag

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Re: Worse Than Regexes
by Dominus (Parson) on Dec 15, 2001 at 06:22 UTC
    Says boo_radley:
    I also like that the Common Lisp steering commitee seems to be the clearly titled "X3J13".
    That wasn't the Common Lisp folks' doing; that's how ANSI names their committees. The X3 groups are all involved with various aspects of information technology, and the X3J groups are all standardization committees for various programming languages. The committee that produced the 1989 C standard was X3J11.

    --
    Mark Dominus
    Perl Paraphernalia

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