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At 22:38 -0500 2003.09.11, Peter da Silva wrote: >I would be even more overjoyed if Perl fanatics didn't toss off handfuls >of line noise as if they were valid responses to legitimate hate, and then >act all bleeding surprised when they're met by unenthusiastic responses. Yes, I suppose Perl looks like line noise to people who don't know Perl. >> It's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language >> rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool >> has ever done. >> --Erik Naggum > >In other words, it's fragile and dangerous. Yes, if by "other words" you mean "words that don't mean what the original words meant." >> >And to release things in public I'd be embarassed to admit I'd >> >written. > >> Sounds like a personal problem. > >You wouldn't be embarassed to admit to authorship of Majordodo? Not if I had written it, no. I'd admit it sucked in certain ways and I'd fix the problems or move on. >It's rare I see Perl code I can't easily decipher. It's rare that I see >Perl code that I don't have to decipher at all. From the missing-the-point dept. I was saying that I can read it just fine. >I'm sure there's people who love all the software you hate. Well, some of >us hate the software you love. Deal with it. *shrug* If you can't handle people responding to your hate, then don't hate in public. -- Chris Nandor pudge@xxxxx.xxx http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@xxxx.xxx http://osdn.com/There's stuff above here
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