This post while informative was nothing more than a review of an article. That being said, I'll get down to the work of reviewing...

Ovid mentions that the author, Paul Graham, is targeting the Lisp community but goes on to say that it can be useful to Perl programmers as well. He shows how Mr. Graham compares Perl to Lisp with some nice example code. He explains that the article has Python (although they are "a bit clumsy") and Java ("but Java's strong typing gets in the way") code samples as well.
Ovid goes on to say this article would be of particular interest to Perl hackers. Why? Because Perl hackers can out code Lisp hackers any day... or something like that. I was starting to lose interest in the review by this point. That's okay though because he was trying to wrap it up anyway. He mentions development time at Company A using Perl vs. Company B using something else and ends on Pointy Haired Bosses and budgets...

Overall, I'd rate this review a 7 out of 10. It was informative but a bit too long for a review of an article. Had this been a book review, the length would have been fine and probably rated a 9 out of 10.

Better luck next time Ovid!

Matthew Musgrove

 

 

 

P.S. If you haven't already guessed by now, this is a joke. Screamer mentioned reviews of reviews ;) in Re: Move Review Categories. Ovid I hope you are not mad at me for this... :)

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