Summary of responses regarding Jim Joyces Unix Bookstore

Paul Graham pjg at acsu.buffalo.edu
Tue Jul 24 05:23:49 AEST 1990


lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

|That's interesting.  I think Unix IS a programming language.  A big,
|complicated, hard-to-learn, not-very-portable, highly undisciplined
|language with several alternate syntaxes--an unholy, convulsing, constantly
|mutating mixture of minimalism and pluralism--an entire ecosystem of
|programming.

hmmm, kinda sorta justa little like perl?  note that i said kinda sorta.

particularly the unholy convulsing constantly mutating part.

kinda sorta.



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