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From: Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:34:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:09:49 +0100
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:
>Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>> Its syntax is also a horrific mess.
>
>Which means precisely what?

Far too much pointless punctuation. An interpreter shouldn't need the vartype
signified by $ or @ once its defined, it should already know. And then there 
are semantically meaningful underscores (seriously?) and random hacky keywords 
such as <STDIN>. I could go on.

>> Its no surprise Perl has been ditched in favour of Python just about
>> everywhere for new scripting projects.
>
>"I say so and I'm an avid Phython fan?"
>
>Not much of a reason.

It shows the general consensus of which is an easier language to work with.