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Re: Best unix programming language or tool for dealing with plaintext

Russell Shaw

2005-11-08, 6:29 pm

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> joe@invalid.address writes:
>
>
> PERL is unreadable and unwritable. At least, with APL it was
> unreadable, but you could write it...
>
> Lisp is readable and writable.

Perl is easy once you rtfm and use comments. I've only ever heard
of lisp being used for some editor that masquerades as an OS;)