nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Yeah, I was trying to remember some of the others. Something perl-like,
>> certanily (python, Perl, bash, Tcl, etc).
> 
> python, perl and tcl are very unlike each other despite the scripting moniker.

Fairly so, yes. But the concepts of a "scripting language" (i.e., the 
primary data structure being a hashtable, the idea that "evaluating a 
definition" is pretty much what creates code rather than strictly 
compilation, the baroque scoping rules, etc) is what's more important than 
the fact that (for example) regex is a literal in Perl and not in the others.

> truly is a marvel to behold in all of its C, shell, Lisp, forth summarizing of
> ideas goes...

Errr, Perl has something to do with FORTH?  You'll have to clarify that one, 
because, like, it really doesn't, as far as I can tell.


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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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