note BrowserUk <blockquote><i>as a reply to a post which
included C, C++, Java, Python and Haskell source
code.</i></blockquote> <p>A belated post to the thread caused me
to look back at it, I found this which I missed before, and
would like to respond. <p>I didn't offer PHP because I've never
used it. I have used all of the languages I posted samples of.
(Albeit that my "use" of Haskell has been quite limited.)
<p>Whilst I might have found equivalent examples on-line; I
would not have been able to judge a good example from a bad.
<blockquote><i>My point is that Perl is not unique in its
ability to provide concise solutions to text processing
problems.</i></blockquote> <p>I don't think I claimed it was
"unique". <blockquote><i>The PHP solution is a little
longer,</i></blockquote> <P>Actually, quite a lot longer.
<blockquote><i>but is arguably more readable </i></blockquote>
<p>One-liners aren't meant to be readable. (No one is going to
be code reviewing my console history:) <p>Just as a carpenter
doesn't use