[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Plans for 1.12

["Sam BC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jed Davis
>
> --On Monday, 26 June 2000 17:54 -0400 Daniel Burrows
> <Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   The Lisp syntax is much more simple and consistent than anything
> >   C-derived, with Perl being maybe one of the worst offenders I've seen.
> >
> As much as I like Perl, I have to agree; the syntax makes C++'s
> look simple.
>
C++ syntax is simple!!! Come to that, Perl syntax is simple as long as you
don't want to do anything horrendously complex (or OO)

> >   It's not 5 minutes, but you can probably find at least one at
> > http://www.schemers.org.  A somewhat technical introduction is at:
> > ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_toc.html
> >
> >   I recently worked on a project with someone who learned Scheme
> >   overnight when I asked if he would be able to pick it up.  Of course,
> > he didn't know or understand the deep structure of Scheme, or the many
> > tricks and idioms that are available.  If you can get those in Perl from
> > a 5 minute course, I'd be amazed.
> >
> I somehow doubt that it's really 5 minutes; of course, with Perl
> there are
> at least half a dozen ways to do any given thing, so there's a big
> difference between knowing enough of the language and knowing a
> lot of the
> language.
>
True for all languages, no?

SamBC