I find that entire Usenet conversation very interesting for all sorts of quotes, far and beyond what is mentioned in the blog post about Perl/RE: > [...] In pa

I find that entire Usenet conversation very interesting for all sorts of quotes, far and beyond what is mentioned in the blog post about Perl/RE: > [...] In particular, I was baffled that > there was no mention _whatsoever_ of advanced languages such as > Scheme, ML, and Haskell--languages that to me seem most promising as > foundations for safe, efficient, and expressive prototyping/scripting > as well as general purpose programming. With the benefit of historical hindsight...