The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Larry Wall
Source: Wikipedia
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call. : -)
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. : -)
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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