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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 22:48:04 GMT
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In article <CxBJ7o.9Kv@festival.ed.ac.uk> jeff@festival.ed.ac.uk (J W Dalton) writes:
: Yes, though I'm not sure I understand what people mean by "higher
: level" these days.  Look at "very high level" which seems to include
: ML on one hand and very specialized languages such as eqn, with
: awk, perl, etc near the specialized end.

Yes, Perl is specialized.  It's specialized for slinging around crap.
Of course, as T. Sturgeon points out, 90% of everything is crap.

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
