From: ······@gmail.com
Subject: does Larry Wall knew lisp when perl was taking shape?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:24:19 +0000
Message-ID: <0595982c-766c-468e-9e3a-70fbf477aab4@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

in Wikipedia's perl article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

It is said that the design of perl is influenced by lisp.
quote:
“Influenced by	AWK, BASIC, BASIC-PLUS, C, C++, Lisp, Pascal, sed, Unix
shell”.

Does anyone know any evidence, that Larry Wall (the creator of Perl)
knew any lisp before release of perl 4 (1991-1994)?

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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From: Mirco Wahab
Subject: Re: does Larry Wall knew lisp when perl was taking shape?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:44:47 +0000
Message-ID: <g5iunf$1pkk$1@nserver.hrz.tu-freiberg.de>

······@gmail.com wrote:
> in Wikipedia's perl article:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
> 
> It is said that the design of perl is influenced by lisp.
> quote:
> �Influenced by	AWK, BASIC, BASIC-PLUS, C, C++, Lisp, Pascal, sed, Unix
> shell�.
> 
> Does anyone know any evidence, that Larry Wall (the creator of Perl)
> knew any lisp before release of perl 4 (1991-1994)?

There's strong evidence:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

[Larry says:]
  ...
  For good or ill, when I went off to grad school, I studied
  linguistics, so the only computer language I used there was
  LISP. It was my own personal McCarthy era.

  Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can
  certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good
  conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP
  has never really catered to mere mortals.

  And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven
  LISP for not catering to them.
  ...


==> f'up c.l.p.m

Regards

M.