Re: Real Languages vs. Perl

[dws]

One of the great benefits of not defining what you mean by "real" or "full" is that you can let them mean whatever you want them to, and nobody can prove you wrong.

Unless you lay out (and agree on) your criteria for comparing languages first, "real" is just a throwaway term that can mean whatever the author wants it to.

[doran]

Agreed. That's why I was asking. Cuz the way he worded the statement made it sound like it was something obvious to those "in the know", which is something I'm not ready to lay claim to... yet.