Conrad Schneiker <schneik / austin.ibm.com> writes:

> > Or at least, couldn't it be confused as one. And if it could, then I'm not sure
> > I'd like to see Ruby sharing it.
> 
> Well, some people call Perl a {great, powerful, innovative, flexible, productive,
> etc.} programming language, so I guess to avoid confusion we shouldn't call Ruby a
> {great, powerful, innovative, flexible, productive, etc.} programming language
> either, should we? :-)

My point was that if languages have catchphrases associated with 
them, then Perl has TMTOWTDI and "Laziness, Impatience,and Hubris".

And people might confuse "Principle of Least Effort" with Laziness.

But at least Principle of Least Effort has a better acronym than
Principle of Optimum Programming.


Dave