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> it's a completely different beast, a highly complex "scripting" language I learned long ago to not call my programs scripts, because many people interpreted

> it's a completely different beast, a highly complex "scripting" language I learned long ago to not call my programs scripts, because many people interpreted (sorry) this negatively.

ivanhoe 7y ago
In those days "real programmers" were doing C and ASM, and they anyway considered all other languages as a joke :P
- wbl 7y ago
  Kernigan didn't! The number of little languages he made is astounding.
  - p_l 7y ago
    The "unix way" was full of small languages, sometimes compiled to C. There's a good reason why parser generators were part of UNIX.