Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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.

regex is a literal in ruby too.  I also like perl scoping with my and our. :)

> > 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.

like forth, it doesn't need to operate on named arguments, which is taken then
to be the first in the "stack"... :)

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