From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2000-12-12T07:00:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7058] Re: Why do people think Perl is ugly? (Vent); was: Why isn't Perl highly orthogonal?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Berry" <cberry@cinenet.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:7056] Re: Why do people think Perl is ugly? (Vent); was:
Why isn't Perl highly orthogonal?


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> Of course, an artist will be horribly constrained by the etch-a-sketch,
> and will be able to create beauty using the brushes and paint.

I agree with what you said, but this comment provoked me a little.  My
mother always told me "a good artist never blames his tools."  I think the
same should be said for programming languages.

Then again, I'm always griping about Java's etch-a-sketch-iness, so never
mind :)

Brian
(two weeks with Ruby, coming in by way of Perl and Python)