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Re: The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
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| Larry Elmore 2007-06-10, 10:05 pm |
| Twisted wrote:
> On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <b...@undisclosedlocation.net> wrote:
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> Oh come on! Toy languages (such as any set of editor commands) and
> joke languages (ala Intercal) don't count, even if they are
> technically Turing-complete. ;)
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> Nor does anything that was designed for the every-character-at-a-
> premium punch-card era, particularly if it is, or rhymes with,
> "COBOL".
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> Those have excuses, like it's a joke or it's a constrained
> environment. Perl, unfortunately, has no such excuses. If there were
> such a thing as "embedded Perl", I'd have to hesitate here, but since
> there isn't...
Neither APL nor Snobol nor J are toy or joke languages.
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