It is possible that I just like to argue... ;-)

"the less a man makes declarative sentences, the less apt he is to look like a
fool in retrospect."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Adam Turk
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:55 AM
To: kclug@kclug.org; jfowler@westrope.com
Subject: RE: The C is dead, long live the Perl

You are the definition of tangent.

Adam

>>> "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler@westrope.com> 02/07/02 11:36AM >>>
What about Pascal? That's defiantly not derived from perl...
Algol begets Pascal which begets Object-Pascal which begets Delphi which begets
Kylix...
(with many different spin-offs in between: Modula-2, Simula, Smalltalk, Cedar,
Oberon, Blackbox, etc...) All of which have nothing to do with perl... Oh, and
what about Fortran, Basic, and COBOL? Or even the mother of them all, assembler?
Perl is just an interpreted language anyway, and it's can only be compared with
other interpreted languages. (Python, LISP, etc) -Jeremy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of DCT Jared Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:13 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: The C is dead, long live the Perl
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> > I disagree. Reduce contemporary languages, and you get Perl. Reduce
> > Perl, and you get C. There is nothing before C that C could have
> > followed from. B doesn't count!
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> Using some definitions of the word "reduce" I entirely agree with you.
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> -Jared
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