On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> Perl has a bizarre, convoluted and barely-consistent syntax which
> somehow usually manages to let you do the right thing without getting
> in the way too much.
>
> Tcl has an extremely simple and consistent syntax which nevertheless
> still somehow manages to lay deathtraps for even the experienced Tcl
> programmer, and which makes even simple things painful (consider that
> the Tcl equivalent of "a = b + c" is "set a [expr {$b + $c}]").
It is interesting that the most popular programming languages have
always been the hacky, inconsistent ones (Fortran, Basic, C, Perl).
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