| Ron Johnson 2006-11-25, 7:24 pm |
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On 11/25/06 17:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
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> Well, the PERL developers don't seem to think so given the arguments on
> the PERL mailing lists we've had as much as some of the pointless
> arguments we have in Debian, but it doesn't really *matter*. 
True.
What matters is that PERL started out as
Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi-
trary text files, extracting information from those text
files, and printing reports based on that information. It's
also a good language for many system management tasks. The
And has wound up being everything for everybody (who likes to swear
at the computer[*]). Definitely *not* The Unix Way.
* I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my
shoulder at some PERL 4 code, and said, "What is that, swearing?" --
Larry Wall in <199806181642.JAA10629@wall.org>
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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