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Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl? Date: 21 Mar 2024 06:32:00 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: <l622j0Fn16lU8@mid.individual.net> References: <17be420c4f90bfc7$63225$1585792$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <utd86u$1ipcj$1@solani.org> <86sf0l9h6c.fsf@yaxley.in> <utfpe1$1ol4n$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2p0Thz11XIKdhiCH+vL/cAC3bI4TF+gbu4NY0bf3UXC2cwsZa5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jyE8Ov57Fx9oH1usZN2buJOT42k= sha256:o1xyise7Xxlpf89IvxuTUMa7SyF9aIzbRIYQQfI+j34= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1395 On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:53:54 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:46:59 +0530, Yaxley Peaks wrote: > >> Embrace purely functional programming! > > Purely-functional programming’s dirty little secret is that I/O cannot > be expressed in a purely-functional way. Hence 'common lisp'. Lisp descended from the rarefied atmosphere of academia to mingle with the commoners that wanted to actually do something with their dirty little paws. The original Pascal was only good for telling itself secrets before hoi polloi got their mitts on it too.