From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-03-26T00:56:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Getting the word to conventional programmers Glenn Parker writes: > Csaba Henk wrote: >> There was one interesting bit, committed by Pall, the PHP guy: >> DevSource: If there were one core thing you could change about >> scripting >> languages, what would it be? >> Pall: Even though popular scripting languages such as Python, Perl, >> Tcl, >> PHP, Javascript are all very high-level languages, they are all based on >> an text based idiom. [...] Representing code as abstract syntax trees >> and not streams of characters is central to huge advances in programmer >> efficiency and simplicity. > > I chuckled when I read that. The secret to "huge advances" is, wait > for it... LISP! Only we'll have to drop that antiquated textual > representation stuff for something (?) better. Too much PHP must rot > an important area of the brain, the same way candy affects your teeth. > :) And the bitter irony in above statement is that PHP is the only language of these that requires the *code as a string* to create a lambda. :-) > Glenn Parker | glenn.parker-AT-comcast.net | -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org