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The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Functional Notations

Larry Elmore ljelmore at verizon.spammenot.net
Sun Jun 10 18:11:08 EDT 2007 
Twisted wrote:
> On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <b... at undisclosedlocation.net> wrote:
>> "Paul McGuire" <p... at austin.rr.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1181414625.121073.203940 at g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <l... at noemail.lewscanon.com> wrote:
>>>>> In particular, Perl code looks more like line
>>>>> noise than like code from any known programming language. ;))
>>>> Hmm - I know of APL and SNOBOL.
>>>> --
>>>> Lew
>>> TECO editor commands.  I don't have direct experience with TECO, but
>>> I've heard that a common diversion was to type random characters on
>>> the command line, and see what the editor would do.
>>> -- Paul
>> J
>>
>> http://www.jsoftware.com/
> 
> Oh come on! Toy languages (such as any set of editor commands) and
> joke languages (ala Intercal) don't count, even if they are
> technically Turing-complete. ;)
> 
> Nor does anything that was designed for the every-character-at-a-
> premium punch-card era, particularly if it is, or rhymes with,
> "COBOL".
> 
> Those have excuses, like it's a joke or it's a constrained
> environment. Perl, unfortunately, has no such excuses. If there were
> such a thing as "embedded Perl", I'd have to hesitate here, but since
> there isn't...

Neither APL nor Snobol nor J are toy or joke languages.
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