Bob Blick wrote:
> Wouter van Ooijen said:
> >> How about Perl and Tk? Works for me.
> >
> > Yuk (Perl) and fantastic (Tk). I would suggest Python/Tkinter, or
> > Tcl/Tk. Notice the common part in these three alternatives :)
>
> Huh?
>
> My post was in reply to someone suggesting BASIC, and you are dissing Perl
> instead?

As I don't remember seeing anyone else mention BASIC in this thread I can only
assume you are refering to XCSB. Perhaps I should point out that XCSB actually
runs native on a PIC. The compiler produces optimised machine code that executes
directly on the PIC. I have not yet come across a compiler that generates native
PIC machine code from Perl or Python source.

>
> I certainly hope it's only because you are taking time to carefully
> compose a message detailing all the reasons why BASIC in any shape is bad
> :-)

Come on, get real. There are hundreds of dialects of BASIC some with very
similar capabilties to C and C++, others with brain dead restrictions no better
than assembler. The fact that you can get some crap code written in BASIC is not
the fault of the language but the person writing the code. I have come across
hundreds of examples of crap code written in C, C++, assembler, PASCAL, Fortran
and SQL. But by far, the worst code I have ever had the misfortune to work on
was written in C. The language isn't the problem - people are the problem.

>
> Really, so many good things can be done quickly and easily in Perl, and it
> is way more popular than Python.

No it isn't more popular, I dislike each equally ;-)

>
> Python might have had a chance to catch on if it hadn't been for the use
> of indents rather than brackets. As it stands, it is doomed to always be a
> niche language like FORTH.
>

I remember when C was seen as a terse super nerdy language only just better than
APL and that period seemed to last for years :-)

All the best.

Regards
Sergio Masci

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