NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.
All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
use Perl Log In
mr_bean (3802)
mr_bean
(email not shown publicly)
(email not shown publicly)
Thursday December 13, 2007
09:57 PM
computer languages as communication
From the State
of the Onion
... a Text, whether spoken or written, is an act of communication requiring intelligence on both ends
Writing a computer program is like having a conversation with a computer. Not only do you have to keep up your end of the conversation, you have to keep up the computer's end too.
help them think they understand.
--Larry Wall
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.
computer languages as communication 0 Comments More | Login | Reply /