perl qstn...

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in message <867homm1qf.fsf at red.stonehenge.com>, wrote Randal L.
Schwartz thusly...
>
> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman
> >>>>> <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
>
> Matthew> As far as I know, perl and its descendant ruby are the
> Matthew> only programming languages that let you put the
> Matthew> condition test after the action, despite this being
> Matthew> exceeding familiar in human languages.
>
> Except, we old-timers remember that Larry Wall directly lifted this
> from RSTS-E BASIC-PLUS, which he had used at Pacific University as a
> student.  Having hacked BASIC-PLUS myself around the same time, I
> recognized it instantly.
>
> BASIC-PLUS went further though, allowing them to be nested.  So
> you'd end up with monstrosities like:

"Beauty is in the eye ...",  or, perhaos you would prefer "Only a
mother would ...".


> PRINT a
>   IF a % 3 = 2
>     FOR a = b TO b+7
>       FOR b = 0 TO 90 STEP 10;

Oh Randal, don't tease me please about the lack of such loveliness in
perl.


  - parv

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