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On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 04:14, Rick Marshall wrote: <snip> > can't quite believe that you used regex and readability in the same > sentence ;) Now that you mention it, neither can I. :-) > > readability i'm sure has a lot to do with familiarity. the brain learns > to look for patterns, ignore them and then get the content. Yes. Some computer language designers spend a lot of effort investigating how the brain recognizes and processes patterns. Sometimes the results are a bit surprising. (I got my head around Perl 5, but I don't know how I'll take to Perl 6. Certainly is a lot of interesting stuff going on over in Perl 6 language design though.) <snip> > > i've even heard apl programmers claim readability - and that would have > to be the ultimate compact language! I just had a look at an APL tutorial. I'm awed. I thought Perl was concise... /Henrik
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