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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:33:56 +0100
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Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:39:20 +0000
> Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> boring babbled:
>>with <87wmighu4i.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> Rainer
>>Weikusat wrote:
>>> Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>>>> On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:25:05 +0100 Rainer Weikusat
>>>> <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:
>>>>>Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> writes:
>>>>>> On 2024-04-07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:01:43 +0000, Javier wrote:
>>
>>*CUT* [ 19 lines   6 levels deep]
>>
>>>> Its syntax is also a horrific mess.
>>> Which means precisely what?
>>
>>You're arguing with Unix Haters Handbook.  You've already lost.
>
> ITYF the people who dislike Perl are the ones who actually like the unix
> way of having simple daisychained tools instead of some lump of a language
> that does everything messily.

Perl is a general-purpose programming language, just like C or Java (or
Python or Javascript or Rust or $whatnot). This means it can be used to
implement anything (with some practical limitation for anything) and not
that it "does everything".