{"id":33,"date":"2007-12-07T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T23:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=33"},"modified":"2016-12-18T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T22:47:01","slug":"philosophy-of-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/12\/07\/philosophy-of-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"philosophy of perl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Larry Wall, creator of Perl, in 1995: <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.lang.perl.misc\/msg\/4ea8ddd4dfcf8a9b\">http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.lang.perl.misc\/msg\/4ea8ddd4dfcf8a9b<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:10pt;color:#0000dd;\">\n  * Learn it once, use it many times\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:10pt;color:#0000dd;\">\n  You learn a natural language once and use it many times. The lesson for a language designer is that a language should be optimized for expressive power rather than for ease of learning. It&#039;s easy to learn to drive a golf cart, but it&#039;s hard to express yourself in one.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">\n  Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/perl\" rel=\"tag\">perl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/philosphy\" rel=\"tag\">philosphy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/programming\" rel=\"tag\">programming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/larrywall\" rel=\"tag\">larrywall<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Larry Wall, creator of Perl, in 1995: http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.lang.perl.misc\/msg\/4ea8ddd4dfcf8a9b * Learn it once, use it many times You learn a natural language once and use it many times. The lesson for a language designer is that a language should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/12\/07\/philosophy-of-perl\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgresql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}