I know he wasn't claiming that it couldn't be done at all... but his claim was ridiculous none the less.

By what measure?

Assuming "his claim" was that writing his silly example would be easier to do in Perl than C, he's correct by any decent metric I can think of.

So, podian, a new monk and perhaps someone relatively new to programming in general finds a neat website dedicated to this great language he recently started learning and voices his wonder at the expressive power of high-level languages, apparently hoping to start a discussion he might learn from — and he gets downvoted to -10 or less because several of you miss the point entirely and mistake it as an opportunity to correct someone rather than teach him.

Shame on you.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

P.S. The only truly ridiculous things in this thread, IMHO, are the responses that seemingly take up arms to defend C's isomorphism to Perl, which is both obtuse in the context of the original post and redundant because perl is written in C.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: C vs. Perl by sauoq
in thread C vs. Perl by podian

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