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On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:14:21AM +0100, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > :> Perl is a programming language. Finis. > : > :Says the same guy who claims that calling shell has no significant > :speed penalty, hash access is only 20% slower than lexicals, etc etc etc. > : > :Yeah, right... > > And your point is exactly?... Approximately: "Do not finis me!" ;-) > How do you define a "programming language"? For me, it's a language I > can program whith. Programming meaning laying out instructions and having > a Turing machine process them, in a predictable and repeatable way. Yes. You cannot in Perl, since only 60% or so of operations are documented (if you omit those things which are documented hopelessly wrong :-(). Did you ever use $a = $b + $c; ? Ilya